Animacy is a Presupposition in Swahili
| dc.contributor.author | Pesetsky, Jonathan | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-03-19T09:07:58Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-03-19T09:07:58Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2019-08-13 | |
| dc.description.abstract | In this paper, I argue that the phenomenon of animacy override in Swahili arises from the interaction between a syntactic structure with multiple nominal heads and general principles of distributed morphology. This syntactic analysis narrows the possibilities for a semantic analysis of animacy, strongly suggesting an approach previously proposed for gender in Romance languages. Specifically, I argue that Swahili has an interpretable +animate feature which denotes a partial function which is defined only on animate predicates of type et and which denotes the identity function where it is defined. | |
| dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3367185 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://africarxiv.ubuntunet.net/handle/1/942 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://doi.org/10.60763/africarxiv/895 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://doi.org/10.60763/africarxiv/895 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://doi.org/10.60763/africarxiv/895 | |
| dc.subject | Animacy | |
| dc.subject | Swahili | |
| dc.subject | NATURAL SCIENCES::Biology::Organism biology::Morphology | |
| dc.title | Animacy is a Presupposition in Swahili |