Die struktuur van die linker-sinsgrens in Afrikaans

Botha, Marthinus Christoffel; Oosthuizen, Johan

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“…It is thus necessary to explore the possibility that the CP makes available more than two positions. Botha and Oosthuizen (2009) motivate this proposal further by arguing that the semantic and pragmatic distinctions between focalised, topicalised, and wh-phrases warrant distinguishing between the positions these phrases occupy. Rizzi's (1997Rizzi's ( , 2004 proposes a structure of the C-domain that incorporates finer distinctions; dividing the CP into four functional heads, each with their own projection.…”

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“…Rizzi's template, on the other hand, has proven to be useful in describing constructions in a number of different languages -although all of the examples given above are from the Indo-European family; see Paul (2000) for a discussion of topic and focus in Malagasy, and Aboh's (1999) analysis of Gungbe, which has overt Topic and Focus heads. The following section presents Botha and Oosthuizen's (2009) The point of difference focused on in this paper relates to the co-occurrence of a moved whelement and a focalised phrase. According to Rizzi (1997: 291), "[a] Wh operator in main questions is compatible with a Topic in a fixed order (Top Wh), whereas it is incompatible with a Focus".…”

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“…Perhaps the best-known analysis of the structure of the left periphery is that of Rizzi (1997); an earlier proposal is that of Hoekstra and Zwart (1994), and a more recent account has been offered by Benincà and Poletto (2004). Botha and Oosthuizen (2009) review these proposals' ability to account for ordering phenomena in the Afrikaans complementiser phrase (CP). These authors put forward some modifications to Rizzi's structure that are necessary to account for the Afrikaans data and ultimately propose a template for the Afrikaans CP.…”

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“…After recapping Botha and Oosthuizen's (2009) review of past proposals for the structure of the left periphery, the paper lays out these authors' proposed modifications to this structure to accommodate the Afrikaans data, drawing on Benincà and Poletto (2004). Subsequently, it reviews one theoretical explanation for the ordering that is obtained: Abels' (2012) argument from locality.…”

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“…Earlier proposals on the structure of CP Botha and Oosthuizen (2009) review three proposals regarding the structure of CP: that drawn from Government and Binding (GB) theory, Hoekstra and Zwart's (1994) bipartite system, and Rizzi's 'fine structure of the left periphery'. This section recaps their exposition of the relevant ideas.…”

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Movement in the Afrikaans left periphery: a view from anti-locality

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It has been convincingly argued that the so-called "left periphery" of the sentence makes available multiple positions which host topicalised and focalised phrases, among other elements. Projections in the C-domain have been shown to have a fixed ordering, the violation of which results in ungrammaticality. Rizzi (1997) provides a template that specifies this ordering. Botha and Oosthuizen (2009) examine this template's ability to account for ordering phenomena in the Afrikaans left periphery and make certain necessary adjustments to Rizzi's template to account for their data. This short paper takes Botha and Oosthuizen's observations regarding the (im)possibility of a certain ordering in the Afrikaans CP as a case in point. Broadly put, the paper's premise is that although the template provided for the Afrikaans CP may be descriptively adequate, in that it can accommodate and predict possible orderings, it falls short in that it does not account for why such a template should exist. That is, the template itself does not explain why certain orderings are permissible and others are not. It is the paper's modest aim to test the ability of one theoretical perspective, namely Grohmann's (2003) theory of anti-locality, to account for the illegality of a particular ordering in the Afrikaans CP. Antilocality's ban on 'too local' movement is shown to predict the illicitness of this ordering. Due to the paper's limited scope, the analysis is not extended to other constructions. Its aim is to prompt further efforts to account for the observed ordering in the CP domain, and it offers the theory of anti-locality as a possible starting point for these efforts.

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This paper deals with the phenomenon of obligatory reflexivity in Afrikaans. Adopting the general framework of Minimalist Syntax, an attempt is made to develop a novel analysis of this phenomenon that can provide a conceptually adequate account for the facts, and that is amenable to extension beyond Afrikaans. The basic idea underlying the proposed "nominal shell analysis (of obligatory reflexivity)" (NSA) is that two expressions which enter into an obligatory coreferential relationship-in this case, the reflexive and its antecedent-are initially merged into the same constituent. It is proposed that these two expressions form part of a nominal shell structure which is headed by an identity focus light noun n, a functional category which belongs to a natural class of identificational (or quantificational) elements. This n represents the locus of the-self suffix that is normally found with reflexive pronouns in Afrikaans. The coreferential relationship between the reflexive and its antecedent is established in this nominal shell via phi(φ)-feature valuation, with the light noun acting as intermediary. It is claimed that the NSA can provide an empirically adequate account of the relevant facts without appealing to any theoretical devices or features that are not provided by or that are incompatible with the basic assumptions and concepts of Minimalist Syntax.

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Die struktuur van die linker-sinsgrens in Afrikaans

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Movement in the Afrikaans left periphery: a view from anti-locality

Movement in the Afrikaans left periphery: a view from anti-locality

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Obligatory reflexivity in a Minimalist grammar of Afrikaans

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