Cascadilla Proceedings Project: Paper 1678 Abstract


List of proceedings

Enter a document #:
Enter search terms:




Info for readers

Info for authors

Info for editors

Info for libraries



Order form

Shopping cart

Object-Sharing as Symmetric Sharing: Evidence from Dàgáárè
Ken Hiraiwa and Adams Bodomo
243-251 (complete pdf)
Bookmark and Share

Object-sharing phenomena have been a challenge for syntactic analysis (see Baker 1989, Collins 1997 among others). Hiraiwa and Bodomo, building on novel data from interactions between a Serial Verb Construction (SVC) and a Predicate Cleft Construction (PCC) in Dàgáárè (a Gur language), argue that object-sharing in SVCs involves symmetric sharing under which the object is symmetrically merged with V1 and V2 simultaneously. They further show that such symmetry breaks down before Spell-Out due to verb movement and object shift.



Published in:
Proceedings of the 26th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics
edited by Charles B. Chang and Hannah J. Haynie

Table of contents

ISBN 978-1-57473-423-2 library binding
vii+524 pages
publication date: 2008
published by Cascadilla Proceedings Project, Somerville, MA, USA

Printed edition: $350.00



Copyright © 2009 Cascadilla Proceedings Project. All rights reserved. To request permission to copy any elements from our pages, or to send comments or questions about our pages, please write to webmaster@cascadilla.com and make sure to provide the URL of the particular page.