On the Status of Subject Markers in African Languages

Kari, Ethelbert Emmanuel

doi:10.17002/sil..44.201707.99

studiesinlinguistics

2017

DOI: 10.17002/sil..44.201707.99

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On the Status of Subject Markers in African Languages

Ethelbert Emmanuel Kari¹

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“…SeeKari (2017b) for a discussion of the status of subject markers in African languages. The behaviour of subject markers in Ikwere is similar to what obtains in Igbo with which Ikwere is co-ordinate.…”

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Verb Inflectional Morphology in Ikwere

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Verb Inflectional Morphology in Ikwere

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Variable subject pronoun expression in Cabo-Verdean Creole

Rodríguez-Riccelli

2021

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The Cabo-Verdean Creole (CVC) subject domain has clitic and tonic pronouns that often amalgamate in double subject pronoun constructions; the possibility of a zero-subject and the formal category underlying subject clitics are disputed (Baptista 1995, 2002; Pratas 2004). This article discusses five variable constraints that condition subject expression across three descriptive and inferential analyses of a corpus of speech collected from 33 speakers from Santiago and Maio. Double subject pronoun constructions and zero-subjects were promoted by a persistence effect, though for the former this applied across nonadjacent clauses since double subject pronoun constructions are switch reference and contrastive devices resembling the doubling of agreement suffixes by independent pronouns in languages traditionally classified as pro-drop. Zero-subjects were favored in third-person contexts as previously observed by Baptista and Bayer (2013), and when a semantically referentially deficient (Duarte & Soares da Silva 2016) DP antecedent was in an Intonational Unit that was prosodically and syntactically linked to the Intonational Unit containing the target anaphor (Torres Cacoullos & Travis 2019). Results support reclassification of CVC subject clitics as ambiguous person agreement markers (Siewierska 2004) and suggest that CVC is developing a split-paradigm for person marking and subject expression (Wratil 2009; Baptista & Bayer 2013).

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On the Status of Subject Markers in African Languages

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Verb Inflectional Morphology in Ikwere

Verb Inflectional Morphology in Ikwere

Variable subject pronoun expression in Cabo-Verdean Creole

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