کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
1103097 1488157 2014 29 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
The internal syntax of Shona class prefixes
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم انسانی و اجتماعی علوم انسانی و هنر زبان و زبان شناسی
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The internal syntax of Shona class prefixes
چکیده انگلیسی


• Shona noun-class prefixes associate to one of four syntactic positions.
• As sortal heads for mass nouns, they associate to Nominal Inner Aspect.
• As number-marking heads for count nouns, they associate to Nominal Inner Aspect.
• AS expressives, they associate to a dedicated Evaluative position.
• As honorifics, they associate to D.

Shona (Southern Bantu, Guthrie Zone S10) gender/noun-class prefixes display massive multi-functionality, with concomitant semantic heterogeneity. We argue that this pervasive multi-functionality is a consequence of the pre-syntactic association of Saussurean sound-meaning correspondences and that it reflects the possibility of a prefix associating to distinct syntactic positions, with predictable semantic differences. Using the model of Interface Syntax, we claim that Shona noun-class prefixes associate to one of four syntactic positions: to Nominal Inner Aspect as sortal heads for mass nouns; to Nominal Outer Aspect as number-marking heads for count nouns; to a dedicated Evaluative position as expressives; to D as honorifics. The analysis provides a structural basis of the count/mass contrast, correctly predicts the distribution of substitutive and additive number-marking, accounts for the difference between descriptive and evaluative noun-class prefixes, and derives the existence of alliterative (concordial) agreement.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Language Sciences - Volume 43, May 2014, Pages 18–46
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