Determiner spreading in Rukiga
Determiner spreading, the phenomenon whereby adnominal modifiers carry an ‘additional’ determiner, has been studied extensively for a variety of languages, most notably Greek, Semitic, and Scandinavian languages. Interestingly, the same phenomenon occurs in the Bantu language Rukiga. We show how the...
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| description | Determiner spreading, the phenomenon whereby adnominal modifiers carry an ‘additional’ determiner, has been studied extensively for a variety of languages, most notably Greek, Semitic, and Scandinavian languages. Interestingly, the same phenomenon occurs in the Bantu language Rukiga. We show how the Rukiga augment is parallel to the Greek determiner in the context of modification, and how it triggers a restrictive reading when present on a larger class of modifiers than familiar so far: relative clauses, adjectives, possessives, and certain quantifiers. Considering its morphosyntactic and interpretational properties, we propose that the variation in the presence versus absence of the augment on modifiers is due to different underlying structures, applying an analysis of determiner spreading in terms of a reduced relative clause structure. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-3d062e80491449fb8cb1ee83b4df2fd72025-02-02T15:46:00ZengDe GruyterLinguistics0024-39491613-396X2023-09-016151285133910.1515/ling-2021-0027Determiner spreading in RukigaAsiimwe Allen0Kouneli Maria1van der Wal Jenneke2Department of African Languages, School of Languages, Literature and Communication, Makerere University, Kampala, UgandaDepartment of Linguistics, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, USALeiden University Centre for Linguistics, Leiden, The NetherlandsDeterminer spreading, the phenomenon whereby adnominal modifiers carry an ‘additional’ determiner, has been studied extensively for a variety of languages, most notably Greek, Semitic, and Scandinavian languages. Interestingly, the same phenomenon occurs in the Bantu language Rukiga. We show how the Rukiga augment is parallel to the Greek determiner in the context of modification, and how it triggers a restrictive reading when present on a larger class of modifiers than familiar so far: relative clauses, adjectives, possessives, and certain quantifiers. Considering its morphosyntactic and interpretational properties, we propose that the variation in the presence versus absence of the augment on modifiers is due to different underlying structures, applying an analysis of determiner spreading in terms of a reduced relative clause structure.https://doi.org/10.1515/ling-2021-0027augmentbantudeterminer spreadingrelative clauserestriction |
| spellingShingle | Asiimwe Allen Kouneli Maria van der Wal Jenneke Determiner spreading in Rukiga Linguistics augment bantu determiner spreading relative clause restriction |
| title | Determiner spreading in Rukiga |
| title_full | Determiner spreading in Rukiga |
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| topic | augment bantu determiner spreading relative clause restriction |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1515/ling-2021-0027 |
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