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Argument Licensing and Agreement (Hardcover)
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Argument Licensing and Agreement (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax
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The strikingly unrestricted syntactic distribution of nouns in many
Bantu languages often leads to proposals that syntactic case does
not play an active role in the grammar of Bantu. This book offers a
different conclusion that the basis of Zulu that Bantu languages
have not only a system of structural case, but also a complex
system of morphological case that is comparable to systems found in
languages like Icelandic. By comparing the system of argument
licensing found in Zulu to those found in more familiar languages,
Halpert introduces a number of insights onto the organization of
the grammar. First, while this book argues in favor of a
case-licensing analysis of Zulu, it locates the positions where
case is assigned lower in the clause than what is found in
nominative-accusative languages. In addition, Zulu shows evidence
that case and agreement are two distinct operations in the
language, located on different heads and operating independently of
each other. Despite these unfamiliarities, there is evidence that
the timing relationships between operations mirror those found in
other languages. Second, this book proposes a novel type of
morphological case that serves to mask many structural licensing
effects in Zulu; the effects of this case are unfamiliar, Halpert
argues that its existence is expected given the current typological
picture of case. Finally, this book explores the consequences of
case and agreement as dissociated operations, showing that given
this situation, other unusual properties of Bantu languages, such
as hyper-raising, are a natural result. This exploration yields the
conclusion that some of the more unusual properties of Bantu
languages in fact result from small amounts of variation to deeply
familiar syntactic principles such as case, agreement, and the EPP.
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