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Selected Proceedings of the 36th Annual Conference on African Linguistics: Shifting the Center of Africanism in Language Politics and Economic Globalization edited by Olaoba F. Arasanyin and Michael A. Pemberton ISBN 1-57473-414-8 library binding vii + 220 pages publication date: 2006 published by Cascadilla Proceedings Project, Somerville, MA, USA Table of contents Abstract Deo S. Ngonyani Resumptive Pronominal Clitics in Bantu Languages 51-59 (complete pdf) This paper explores resumptive pronominal clitics in Bantu languages. It describes their form and distribution using examples from Kiswahili, Kindendeule, and Chiluba. These languages prohibit preposition stranding. Using parasitic gaps and reconstruction effects, the paper demonstrates that the clitics share movement features with wh-traces. The conclusion is that a resumptive pronominal clitic can be interpreted as a determiner that is left behind after the extraction of the nominal. |