Paper 3692
Obligatory de se Logophors in Ewe, Yoruba, and Igbo: Variation and Competition
Abigail Anne Bimpeh, Imke Driemel, Itai Bassi, and Silvia Silleresi
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Abigail Anne Bimpeh, Imke Driemel, Itai Bassi, and Silvia Silleresi
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Abstract
We investigate the properties of logophors and ordinary pronouns across Ewe (3 speakers), Igbo (2 speakers), and Yoruba (2 speakers). Our results show that logophors are obligatorily read de se across all three languages, while the reference profile of the pronoun varies. We provide a new analysis that captures the Ewe pattern by way of pronominal competition, and propose an extension that models the variation relative to Yoruba and Igbo.
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Proceedings of the 40th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics
edited by Jiayi Lu, Erika Petersen, Anissa Zaitsu, and Boris Harizanov
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edited by Jiayi Lu, Erika Petersen, Anissa Zaitsu, and Boris Harizanov
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