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Title Locative enclitics in Cuwabo
Full text https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/8561484; http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-8561484; https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/8561484/file/8561487
Date 2017
Author(s) Guérois, Rozenn
Abstract This paper provides a detailed description of the three locative enclitics = vo, = wo and = mo found in Cuwabo verbs (Mozambique, Bantu P34). I first present the basic function of these morphemes, typically used to pronominalise a locative argument of the verb (anaphoric relations), and then proceed with a thorough discussion of their morphophonological, syntactic and semantic properties. In terms of morphophonological status, I argue that these locative morphemes are necessarily attached to the verb and I show how they may interact with other post-final verbal elements. Second, I discuss the syntactic properties of the locative clitics as compared with object prefixes, and identify different criteria which may serve as a diagnostic for deciding whether they qualify as pronominal or doubling clitics. I then show how locative enclitics developed semantically and acquired several non-locative functions (existentials, partitive and comparative). Finally, I address some cases whereby the locative clitic has no transparent meaning and is best considered as lexicalised.
Subject(s) Locative encliticisation; post-final verbal morphology; pronominal; substitution; grammatical agreement; semantic developments; Bantu; languages
Language eng
Publisher Royal Museum Central Africa-belgium
Type of publication journalArticle; info:eu-repo/semantics/article; info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Format application/pdf
Source AFRICANA LINGUISTICA; ISSN: 0065-4124
Rights info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Repository Gent - University of Gent
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