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When quantifiers agree in person: Anomalous agreement in Bantu

Jerro, Kyle

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Title
When quantifiers agree in person: Anomalous agreement in Bantu
Author(s)
Jerro, Kyle
Issue Date
2013
Keyword(s)
  • Linguistics
  • Syntax
  • Bantu
  • Agreement
  • Quantifiers
  • Morphology
  • Kinyarwanda
Abstract
The distribution of person, number, and gender features across languages follows certain cross-linguistic tendencies; one such tendency is that person agreement is often reserved for agreement between a noun and verb. Certain Bantu languages, however, reject this tendency by allowing person agreement on post-nominal quantifiers. The current analysis accounts for this seemingly anomalous case of agreement by tying the historical evolution of agreement morphology with the observation that these seemingly anomalous quantifiers have certain structural parallels with verb phrases.
Publisher
Studies in the Linguistic Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
ISSN
0049-2388
Type of Resource
text
Language
en
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Copyright © 2013 Kyle Jerro

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