The syntax of Tuki
Subtitle: a cartographic approach
By: Edmond Biloa, University of Yaounde 1.
Series: Linguistik aktuell/Linguistics today -- v. 203
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company; Benjamins Publishing Company, John
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Amsterdam; Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 611
ISBN-13: 9789027255860; 9789027272362
Subjects: Tuki language; Grammar; Syntax
Description: Tuki null objects as pro -- Full pronominal subjects and binding theory -- Null objects and binding theory -- Null object identification in Tuki -- Null objects in other languages -- Concluding remarks -- A-bar bound pro -- Introduction -- Tuki as a pro-drop language -- Resumptive pronouns -- Wh-questions -- Relativization -- Headed relative clauses -- Free relatives -- Summary of section 8.3 -- Island environments -- Weak crossover at S-structure -- Anaphoric binding -- Reconstruction and syntactic movement -- Movement and variable binding in Japanese -- Movement and variable binding in Tuki -- Subjacency : condition on movement or representations? -- Subjacency in Tuki syntax -- Subjacency in Tuki logical form -- Scope properties of wh-in-situ in Tuki -- Wh-phrases-in-situ and subjacency -- Subjacency in Egyptian Arabic -- Argument wh-operators -- Adjunct wh-operators
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 583-599) and index.