Apparent Violations Of The Final-Over-Final Constraint: The Case Of Gbe Languages
| dc.contributor.author | Aboh, Enoch | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-03-18T09:52:06Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-03-18T09:52:06Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2020-08-05 | |
| dc.description.abstract | In a series of recent talks and articles, Theresa Biberauer, Anders Holmberg, Ian Roberts, and Michelle Sheehan argue that the final-over-final condition (FOFC) is an absolute universal regulating structure building. Yet, many languages deviate from FOFC thus suggesting that this condition is not “surface-true”. The question therefore arises what factors make languages violate FOFC on the surface. In order to answer this question, we need a typology of FOFC-violating languages, as well as a detailed description of such violations. In this short essay, I describe FOFC violations in Gbe and some creoles, while relating the observed phenomena to some theoretical questions they raise. | |
| dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3972852 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://africarxiv.ubuntunet.net/handle/1/811 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://doi.org/10.60763/africarxiv/764 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://doi.org/10.60763/africarxiv/764 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://doi.org/10.60763/africarxiv/764 | |
| dc.subject | Gbe languages | |
| dc.subject | final-over-final condition | |
| dc.subject | violations | |
| dc.title | Apparent Violations Of The Final-Over-Final Constraint: The Case Of Gbe Languages |