The Bantu-Romance connection : a comparative investigation of verbal agreement, DPs, and information structure / edited by Cécile De Cat, Katherine Demuth.

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The Bantu-Romance Connection; Editorial page ; Title page; LCC data ; Table of contents; List of contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: Clitics and agreement; Part II: The structure of DPs; Part III: Information structure; References; Part I. Clitics and agreement; Concepts of structural underspeci cation in Bantu and Romance; 1. Introduction; 1.1 Romance-Bantu similarities on the left and right periphery; 2. The dynamics of language processing; 2.1 Lexical information provided by verbs; 2.2 Context-dependence and lexical speci cations for pronouns.

2.3 The dynamics of long-distance dependency2.4 Constructing trees in tandem; 2.5 Scrambling and locality constraints on structural under-speci cation; 3. Left and right periphery effects in Bantu; 4. Inducing locally un xed nodes: Otjiherero subject markers; 5. Passive and locative inversion; 6. Reflections and directions for the future; References; On different types of clitic clusters*; 1. Introduction; 2. Cluster internal restrictions; 3. On a case-approach to clitic clusters; 3.1 On the apparent special status of Italian glielo; 3.2 Mi ti combinations.

4. Many different types of clitic clusters in Italian4.1 Type 1: Unrestricted clusters with vowel change; 4.2 Type 2: Unrestricted clusters with no vowel change; 4.3 Type 3: Combinations which are only possible in proclitic position; 4.4 Type 4 and 5: Combinations which are independently impossible in enclitic position; 4.5 Summary; 5. Ingredients for the analysis; 5.1 The representation of clitic clusters in antisymmetry; 5.2 Proclisis vs. enclisis; 5.3 Vowel change; 5.4 On the replacement of le by gli; 5.5 An aside on orthographic conventions; 5.6 On person and number feature checking.

5.7 Clitic climbing and two clitic positions inside the clause5.8 On the clitic (cluster) derivation; 6. On the derivation of the different types of clusters; 6.1 Type 1 clusters with io -- do clitics; 6.2 Type 1 and Type 2 clusters with locative ci; 6.3 Another Type 2 cluster with locative ci; 6.4 Clusters with impersonal si; 6.5 Type 3 clusters with reflexive si; 7. On the mi gli constraint; 8. Conclusion; References; Pronominal object markers in Bantu and Romance*; 1. The Bantu-Romance connexion; 2. Object markers in French; 3. Object markers in Bantu.

4. Are Romance clitics and Bantu object markers amenable to a unified analysis?5. Conclusion; References; The Bantu-Romance connection in verb movement and verbal inflectional morphology; 1. Introduction; 2. WH interrogatives in Bantu and Romance; 3. Verbal inflectional morphology in Bantu and Romance; 4. Formal structure and V-movement in verbal inflectional morphology in Bantu and Romance; 5. Formal structure and V-movement in WH-extraction strategies in Bantu and Romance; 6. Fusion in verbal inflectional morphology in Bantu and Romance; 7. Summary and theoretical implications; References.

Both Bantu and Romance languages use a V(erb) S(ubject) construction to express thetic ("out-of-the-blue") sentences. Two types of languages can be distinguished within these language families, with respect to the verbal agreement in a thetic VS sentence: in type 1 the verb has default agreement, whereas in type 2 the verb agrees with the postverbal subject. In the Bantu languages these two types also display a difference in the use of conjoint and disjoint verb forms. Collins (2004), Carstens (2005), and Baker (2008) have previously analyzed such agreement and word order phenomena. These acco.

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