基本説明
This monograph conducts a syntactic study of Tuki, Bantu language spoken in Cameroon, from a cartographic perspective.
Full Description
This monograph conducts a syntactic study of Tuki, a Bantu language spoken in Cameroon, from a cartographic perspective. The following domains are meticulously explored: The Complementizer Domain, the Inflectional Domain and the Verbal Domain. This study reveals that there is a relative phrase (RelP) located between ForceP and FocP. Moreover, a detailed analysis of an articulated IP provides the order of clausal functional heads that manifest aspectual morphology, which is theoretically closely related to issues in adverbial syntax. Additionally, the language under study unveils a very rich structural make up of DP and the surface word orders attested in this phrase can be accounted for in terms of snowballing movement operations along the lines previously sketched in the format of the Split DP Hypothesis. Overall, this cartographic analysis is bound to enrich our morphosyntactic knowledge of UG clausal architecture by demonstrating that its rich underlying structural skeleton is correlated by a wealthy surface structural and functional map.
Edmond Biloa is professor of Linguistics and Chair of the Department of African Languages and Linguistics at the University of Yaounde I in Cameroon (Africa).
Contents
1. Foreword: On cartographic studies; 2. Preface; 3. Acknowledgements; 4. Abbreviations; 5. Chapter 1. Introduction; 6. Chapter 2. Clause structure; 7. Chapter 3. The order of clausal functional heads: Tense, aspect, and modality; 8. Chapter 4. Adverbs; 9. Chapter 5. Null subjects, identification and proper government; 10. Chapter 6. Null objects and the pro-drop parameter; 11. Chapter 7. A-bar bound pro; 12. Chapter 8. Null arguments, agreement, movement and configurationality; 13. Chapter 9. DP structure and concord; 14. Chapter 10. Adjectives and the split - DP structure; 15. Chapter 11. The cartography of the left periphery; 16. Chapter 12. Arguments, adjuncts and relativized minimality; 17. Chapter 13. Focus-V-Movement, predicate doubling and parallel chains; 18. Chapter 14. Anaphora and binding; 19. Chapter 15. Bound variables; 20. Chapter 16. Conclusion; 21. References; 22. Name index; 23. Subject index
