The Matching Analysis of relative clauses: an argument from antipronominal contexts

Pankau, Andreas

doi:10.1007/s10828-018-9097-5

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“…The ban on pronouns functioning as complements of ní brings to mind the antipronominal contexts, that is, syntactic environments that license lexical DPs (where D° has a complement NP with 'descriptive' content) but bar pronouns (Postal 1994;Poole 2018;Pankau 2018) . Postal (1994) documented 12 such contexts in English, while Pankau (2018) enumerated seven in German . The examples in ( 23) to ( 25) are constructions that exhibit some of these contexts from English and German .…”

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“…The examples in ( 23) to ( 25) are constructions that exhibit some of these contexts from English and German . The English examples are from Postal (1994) while the German data are from Pankau (2018) . The German contexts are particularly interesting as five out of the seven contexts are adverbials that are expressed with PPs; see (25) .…”

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Yoruba ni and si: An asymmetry in the class of prepositions

Amaechi¹,

Arokoyo²

2022

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This paper examines two grammatical elements ní and sí which have been considered as prepositions in the grammar of Yoruba (Benue-Congo). We argue that these two elements belong to different word classes; ní is a preposition, while sí is a verb. We present novel data that show syntactic asymmetries that exist between the two elements: behavior under extraction, the possibility of pseudocleft formation, the order of the phrases in a clause, iteration, formation of complex prepositions, and subcategorization. The ní-phrase acts like an adjunct phrase but this is not so with the sí-phrase. The adjunct phrase is a prepositional phrase headed by ní. It is demonstrated that the preposition constitutes a phase head in Yoruba, thus movement out of the PP is banned which explains the lack of preposition stranding with ní. The element sí, on the other hand, can be stranded. It is argued that sí is the non-initial verb in a serial verb construction.

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