The Shona reflexive as covert anaphora

Storoshenko, Dennis Ryan

doi:10.1353/cjl.2016.0010

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“…The preverbal position of the RFM, similar to that of OMs, offers grounds to assume that it is itself a kind of OM, rather than a separate reflexive voice head or a valence operator for instance. A similar observation is made by Kioko (2005) for Kikamba and Storoshenko (2016) for Shona, two related Bantu languages. Indeed, morphemes that affect the number of arguments that the verb takes commonly follow the verb stem in Bantu.…”

Section: Rfms Are Inflectional and Not Derivational Morphologysupporting

confidence: 83%

“…The conclusions drawn above regarding the independent nature of these strategies are then taken to apply to these two cases. Finally, I consider the case of Shona, argued by Murugesan (2019) to be an instantiation of a default agreement strategy, based on Storoshenko (2016). Putting the Shona data in light of cross-linguistic and diachronic evidence, I suggest that there are grounds to think of the Shona reflexive marking as anaphoric agreement of the Swahili kind rather than default agreement.…”

Section: Reclassification Of Default Agreement Languagesmentioning

confidence: 90%

“…17 The same objection carries over to the cross-linguistic parametrization of AAE repair strategies within languages. For instance, according to Murugesan (2019) and Storoshenko (2016), Shona resorts to default agreement, thus ending v's probing after one cycle, while Kutchi Gujarati (Murugesan 2019; Murugesan & Raynaud to appear; Patel-Grosz 2014) is allowed a second cycle, resulting in agreement switch. How this parameter would be set not only across languages but also within languages is problematic.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…One possibility as to the featural content of -ji-is explored by Storoshenko (2016), who analyzes in detail reflexives constructions in Shona, another Bantu language, which look very similar to Swahili.…”

Section: -Ji-is Not Default Agreementmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…(Vitale 1981: 135) In reflexive constructions, -enyewe could either be argued to be either the 'true' anaphoric argument or an adverbial modifier of a silent anaphoric pro. In the absence of definitive diagnostic to establish its status, and by analogy with its emphatic usage in other contexts, I will assume, following Storoshenko (2016) for Shona, that the reflexive anaphor is a covert pro REF L which can be further modified by the emphatic adjectival modifier -enyewe. Object drop, as we have seen previously, is common in Swahili and Bantu languages at large, especially when licensed by agreement.…”

Section: Features Form and Function Of -Enyewementioning

confidence: 99%

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The features of binding and person licensing

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Contents 10 Conclusions 383References 389My first thank you goes to Hedde Zeijlstra and Sandhya Sundaresan, whose guidance and support during this thesis made it possible. You both generously and humanly shared your knowledge but also your life skills in the world of academia, and I feel privileged to have had not one, but two very committed supervisors.To Hedde, thank you for your neverending patience and your kindness. You backed me up in every project (and not just by funding all my trips!) and made every opportunity seem accessible. Thank you for creating for many of us a supporting and stimulating work environment in Göttingen.To Sandhya, thank you for caring so much about our work and challenging me to do better, with a fierce attention to detail. I will be eternally grateful for allowing me to go to India on my first fieldwork, it was an incredible experience. A special thanks to Champa and Sundaresan, who made me feel so welcome in their home.To Jegan Murugesan, thank you for your patient and wise companionship during the project, and for always reminding me, when I was freaking out, that this was just a talk, just a meeting, just a thesis. Needless to say, the content of this thesis owes a lot to our project meetings discussions and to our joint discoveries about the AAE.

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Section: Rfms Are Inflectional and Not Derivational Morphologysupporting

confidence: 83%

Section: Reclassification Of Default Agreement Languagesmentioning

confidence: 90%

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: -Ji-is Not Default Agreementmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Features Form and Function Of -Enyewementioning

confidence: 99%

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