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<v,t>-type Complementation in Kipsigis
Imke Driemel and Maria Kouneli
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Abstract

Kipsigis (Nilotic; Kenya) is reported to display upwards-oriented complementizer agreement (Diercks & Rao 2019). It is argued in Driemel & Kouneli (2020) that the 'say'-based complementizer in the language is in fact the lexical verb 'say' and the phenomenon is best described as agreement between this verb and its local (logophoric) subject. This paper focuses on the semantic analysis provided in Driemel & Kouneli (2020) where clausal complements in Kipsigis are argued to be of type <v,t>, unlike <e,t>-type European complementation (e.g., Kratzer 2006). According to recent theories (Moulton 2019, Bondarenko 2020), there is a link between <v,t>-type clausal complements and hyperraising, and this paper explores this connection for Kipsigis. While the evidence is not conclusive, preliminary data show that hyperraising to object in Kipsigis (Jake & Odden 1979) does not show properties of movement, making base generation accounts more likely.

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Proceedings of the 39th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics
edited by Robert Autry, Gabriela de la Cruz, Luis A. Irizarry Figueroa, Kristina Mihajlovic, Tianyi Ni, Ryan Smith, and Heidi Harley
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