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On the Structure of A-Bar Constructions in Dagbani: Perspectives of «Wh»-Questions and Fragment Answers

On the Structure of A-Bar Constructions in Dagbani: Perspectives of «Wh»-Questions and Fragment Answers

Issah, Samuel Alhassan
Voßen, Rainer

Hardcover

Series: Schriften Zur Afrikanistik / Research In African Studies, Book 30

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ISBN10: 3631805489
ISBN13: 9783631805480
Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W
Published: May 13 2020
Pages: 238
Weight: 0.96
Height: 0.56 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English

This book provides an account of the structure of A-bar constructions, focusing on wh-questions and fragment answers in Dagbani, a Mabia (Gur) language spoken in Northern Ghana. It demonstrates that Dagbani wh-phrases occur in two distinct positions, ex-situ and in-situ, except for subject wh-phrases, which only occur in the former position. It provides a theoretical analysis of the distribution of the wh-phrases couched within minimalism (Chomsky 1995). Finally, the book gives an account of the structural correlation between wh-questions and their answers with the focus on the syntactic derivation of fragment answers. The author contends that the derivation of fragment answer involves two processes: A-bar movement together with PF-deletion

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