dc.contributor.author | Carstens, Vicki | eng |
dc.date.issued | 2011 | eng |
dc.description | NOTICE: this is the author's version of a work that was accepted for publication in Lingua. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in Lingua, 121.5: 721-741 (2011).doi:10.1016/j.lingua.2010.11.001 | eng |
dc.description.abstract | Many Bantu languages exhibit A-movements and patterns of iterating agreement that are disallowed in Indo-European languages. In Minimalist theory, both agreement and movement are constrained by an Activity requirement stipulating that goals in Agree relations must have an unchecked uninterpretable feature. For Indo-European DPs the sole Activity feature in A-relations is Case; but I argue here that grammatical gender, a component of Bantu noun class, is uninterpretable too. Case and nominal gender differ in that the latter enters the syntax already valued. Assuming goal deactivation is a consequence of syntactic valuation, we derive the result that gender is an infinitely reusable Activity feature. Adjunction of Bantu N to D makes gender visible to all clause-level probes, and Bantu DPs are therefore able to A-move more freely than their Indo-European counterparts and to value iterating agreement. The proposals provide a unitary explanation for the existence in Bantu of Subject Object Reversal, locative inversion controlling subject agreement, Hyper-raising, concord, left-edge agreement with operators, and multiple subject agreement. The syntax of gender argues that uninterpretable features need not be deleted from a syntactic object bound for the Conceptual-Intentional interface. | eng |
dc.identifier.citation | Lingua, 121.5: 721-741 (2011). | eng |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10355/10455 | eng |
dc.language | English | eng |
dc.relation.ispartof | Linguistics publications (MU) | eng |
dc.relation.ispartofcommunity | University of Missouri-Columbia. College of Arts and Sciences. Linguistics Program | eng |
dc.rights | OpenAccess. | eng |
dc.rights.license | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 License. | |
dc.source.harvested | http://english.missouri.edu/people/carstensv.html | eng |
dc.subject | Hyper-raising | eng |
dc.subject.lcsh | Bantu languages -- Agreement | eng |
dc.subject.lcsh | Bantu languages -- Gender | eng |
dc.subject.lcsh | Bantu languages -- Case grammar | eng |
dc.title | Hyperactivity and Hyperagreement in Bantu | eng |
dc.type | Article | eng |