- Title
- Subject marking and preverbal coordination in Sesotho: A perspective from Optimality Theory
- Creator
- De Vos, Mark A, Mitchley, Hazel
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date
- 2012
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/469393
- Identifier
- vital:77238
- Identifier
- https://doi.org/10.2989/16073614.2012.737591
- Description
- Agreement usually operates in a one-to-one fashion where an agreement target is matched to a source of agreement. However, when there is more than one source (for example, in preverbal coordination constructions) agreement mismatches occur. These may be resolved either through partial agreement with only a single source, or by various resolution strategies. Bantu languages with their rich noun-class system are an ideal domain to explore resolution strategies. This paper examines the phenomenon of subject-verb agreement with preverbal coordinated DPs in Sesotho (S33) and outlines an Optimality Theoretic analysis of the various strategies that speakers use to negotiate subject verb agreement.
- Format
- 16 pages, pdf
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Southern African linguistics and applied language studies, De Vos, M. and Mitchley, H., 2012. Subject marking and preverbal coordination in Sesotho: A perspective from Optimality Theory. Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, 30(2), pp.155-170, Southern African linguistics and applied language studies volume 30 number 2 155 170 2012 1727-9461
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