On Khumi Verbal Pronominal Morphology

Verbal Morphology , Case Marking

Quantifiers and Verbal Morphology

In n n nt t t tr r r ro o o od d d du u u uc c c ct t t ti i i io o o on n n n The quantization properties of the Incremental Theme argument influence the quantization properties of complex verbal predicates. The basic principle that governs this interaction, which can be stated as in (1), was discussed in chapter 3: (1) aspectual composition : An episodic verb (in a sentence denoting a single ...

The Acquisition of Swahili Verbal Morphology

Recently, much attention has focused on the so-called Root Infinitive(RI) phenomenon, where children in languages such as German use infinitival verbs in root context, seemingly optionally. English has been argued to be an RI language (Wexler 1994), though English speaking children use bare stems instead of infinitives. Languages such as Italian, however, have been shown not to exhibit RIs in e...

Intra-Paradigmatic Contrast in Arabic Verbal Morphology

Arabic verbs exhibit a morphologically conditioned stem ablaut which has been attributed in the past to an apophonic scale (Guerssel and Lowenstamm 1996; Ségéral 1997). I show here that this apophonic scale is unnecessary, and that Arabic ablaut can be attributed instead to maximized contrast along the dimension of morphosyntactic aspect, employing constraints motivated by Rebrus and Törkenczy ...

Pronominal Anaphora

The goal of this chapter is to shed light on the notion of pronominal anaphora and to take a closer look at their syntactic behaviour. After a brief definition of the term itself, we will investigate in which contexts they occur. Of course, one question that arises is whether some general patterns can be observed – how do pronominal anaphora generally behave, and do we find exceptions? Moreover...