The Syntax of simple and compound tenses in Ndebele
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https://doi.org/10.3765/plsa.v1i0.3716Keywords:
verbal periphrasis, default auxiliary, c-selection, Ndebele, BantuAbstract
It is a widely accepted generalization that verbal periphrasis is triggered by increased inflectional meaning and a paucity of verbal elements to support its realization. This work examines the limitations on synthetic verbal forms in Ndebele and argues that periphrasis in this language arises via a last-resort grammatical mechanism. The proposed trigger of auxiliary insertion is c-selection – a relation between inflectional categories and verbs.Downloads
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2016-06-12
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Pietraszko, Joanna Aleksandra. 2016. “The Syntax of Simple and Compound Tenses in Ndebele”. Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America 1 (June): 18:1–15. https://doi.org/10.3765/plsa.v1i0.3716.