BLS 23: Special Session on Syntax and Semantics in Africa

• Table of Contents and Preface

  BLS Editors

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Articles

• The Unergative-Unaccusative Distinction and the Benefactive Applicative in Amharic

  Mengistu Amberber

  1-13

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• Discourse Salience in Kalenjin Inter-Clausal Syntax

  Gregory D. S. Anderson

  14-25

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• The Emergence of the Unmarked Pronoun: Chiche!a Pronominals in Optimality Theory

  Joan Bresnan

  26-46

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• Predicate Clefting in Kisi

  G. Tucker Childs

  47-58

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• The Auxiliarization of re 'say' in Setswana

  Denis Creissels

  59-70

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• Unifying Predicate Cleft Constructions

  Hilda Koopman

  71-85

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• Parameters of Meaning in the Spatial Structure of Temporal Semantics: An Investigation of Wolof Lexicon and Grammar

  Kevin Ezra Moore

  86-97

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• Argument Structure and Locus of Affect in the Maasai External Possession Construction

  Doris L. Payne

  98-115

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• From Body to Argumentation: Grammaticalization as a Fractal Property of Language

  Stéphane Robert

  116-127

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• Grammar and Pragmatics in the Swahili Auxiliary Focus System

  Benji Wald

  128-139

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