Obligatory reflexivity in a Minimalist grammar of Afrikaans

Oosthuizen, Johan

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“…e.g. Chomsky (2006) and Oosthuizen (2013). However, the term "NP" will be used below when referring to nominal expressions for the sake of keeping the discussion as non-technical as possible.…”

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Some Syntactic Features of Relative Constructions in the Greek New Testament

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2016

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In the Greek New Testament, relative sentences that are introduced by relative pronouns alone, apart from the adverbial uses, are the most frequent subordinate sentence type. The research reported on in this paper aimed to investigate and describe a number of syntactic features of relative constructions in the Greek New Testament, taking account, among others, of some typological parameters that have been developed in the general linguistics literature for these constructions. The results indicate that relative constructions in the Greek New Testament have a variety of features, all of which have counterparts in some modern (or other ancient) languages, despite the differences. The relative sentence in the Greek New Testament is mostly postnominal, and the relative pronoun-type is used in those cases for encoding the role of the coreferential element in the relative sentence. Phrases expressing a variety of syntactic functions in a sentence (e.g. subject, direct object, etc.) are accessible to relativisation, that is, they can be represented by relative pronouns. Nominal elements serve mostly as antecedents of relative sentences, although sentences appear in that function as well. A variety of syntactic types of relative sentences can be distinguished, including the prenominal participial, postnominal finite/participial, circumnominal, free relative, adverbial, prejoined, postjoined, sentential and conjoined types. These can be linked in a systematic way to the four functions of relative sentences in the New Testament, i.e. identifying, appositive, adverbial and continuative. Relative sentences also play a role in communicative strategies. Prejoined relative sentences, for example, are most suitable for exposition and theme-building, especially in the correlative diptych construction.

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Some Syntactic Features of Relative Constructions in the Greek New Testament

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“…A core assumption of the analysis of obligatory reflexivity proposed in Oosthuizen (2013a: ch. 3;2013b) is that "reflexive (pronoun)" is not a basic lexical category, but that reflexive and non-reflexive pronouns are syntactically derived from the same lexical root pronoun √PRON. The difference between these two types of pronoun is thus described in syntactic rather than lexical terms (cf.…”

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“…Zwart (2002: 273) argues that "anaphors can be analyzed as pronouns with added focus markers", where −self represents such a focus marker. This idea is central to the analysis of obligatory reflexivity proposed in Oosthuizen (2013aOosthuizen ( , 2013b. 11 Other examples of this subclass of semantically transitive verbs in Afrikaans are aanmeld ("report"), aantrek ("dress"), losruk ("wrench free"), onttrek ("withdraw, recuse"), uittrek ("undress") and was ("wash").…”

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Reflexives and reflexive constructions in Afrikaans

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2015

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This article provides a non-formalistic description of the various reflexive pronouns in Afrikaans. In addition to the traditional class of reflexive pronouns, it is shown that possessive pronouns can also be used reflexively. The facts about (obligatory) reflexivity involving these two types of pronoun are illustrated with reference to several types of construction in which they can occur. It is moreover shown that, besides the subject, the reflexive can take as its antecedent an expression functioning as the direct object, indirect object or as a prepositional object. Attention is also given to a number of non-reflexive constructions, that is, constructions containing inherently non-reflexive verbs and prepositions which disallow a coreferential relationship between the pronoun and some other expression in the sentence.

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Obligatory reflexivity in a Minimalist grammar of Afrikaans

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Some Syntactic Features of Relative Constructions in the Greek New Testament

Some Syntactic Features of Relative Constructions in the Greek New Testament

Reflexives and reflexive constructions in Afrikaans

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