2013
DOI: 10.1515/tlr-2013-0013
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Subject raising in Zulu and the nature of PredP

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“…For example, expletive constructions in Zulu are similar to semantic locative inversion constructions in important respects: all arguments of the verb remain inside the νP and therefore appear post-verbally; none of these arguments can be object-marked or relativized; transitive expletive constructions are acceptable for many Zulu speakers; and expletive constructions with predicate-internal arguments cannot be formed with non-verbal predicates (cf. Buell 2008;Buell and de Dreu 2013;Halpert 2012;Zeller 2008). Given these parallels, it is worthwhile to consider the hypothesis that in expletive constructions, the νP/VP is also selected by Pr.…”
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“…For example, expletive constructions in Zulu are similar to semantic locative inversion constructions in important respects: all arguments of the verb remain inside the νP and therefore appear post-verbally; none of these arguments can be object-marked or relativized; transitive expletive constructions are acceptable for many Zulu speakers; and expletive constructions with predicate-internal arguments cannot be formed with non-verbal predicates (cf. Buell 2008;Buell and de Dreu 2013;Halpert 2012;Zeller 2008). Given these parallels, it is worthwhile to consider the hypothesis that in expletive constructions, the νP/VP is also selected by Pr.…”
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“…6 Importantly, how-6 The segmental copulative morpheme has three allomorphs in Zulu (ng(a)-, y(i)-and w(u)-). There is also a non-segmental copula which is expressed with a depressor tone (breathy voice) on the initial syllable of the nominal predicate (Buell 2008;Buell and de Dreu 2013). The situation is more complex with negated nominal predicate constructions, which involve the use of pronominal forms in addition to the nominal predicate.…”
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“…The neuter subject pronoun in these languages can only refer to people when the predicate is nominal, as shown in (25) In this way, Zulu noun class 17 subject agreement is taken to correspond to the use of het and ce as subjects in Dutch and French. As argued in Buell (2012) and Buell & De Dreu (2011), the subject agreement in (23a) is triggered by a^ro with noun class 17 features, and the logical subject is in a position higher than the canonical subject position. More precisely, then, it is this noun class 17 pro that corresponds to Dutch het and French ce.…”
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confidence: 79%