Wolof论元聚焦结构的无性裂

IF 0.4 4区文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS

Journal of African Languages and Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-11-29 DOI:10.1515/jall-2023-2011

Corentin Bourdeau

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摘要

在Wolof语(尼日尔-刚果)中，焦点通过特定的焦点结构在形态句法上表达。本文讨论了其中的两种结构，即主语聚焦结构和补语聚焦结构。我建议将它们分析为focus / topic形式的非共通性裂缝结构，即焦点和主题并列的结构。在这类裂隙中，当焦点对应句法宾语时，以定冠词la为首的名词短语表达句子的主题;当焦点对应句法主语时，以语素a为首的名词短语表达句子的主题。

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The Wolof argument-focus constructions as copulaless clefts

In Wolof (Niger-Congo), focus is expressed morphosyntactically via specific focus constructions. This article deals with two of them, namely the subject-focus and the complement-focus constructions. I propose to analyse them as copulaless cleft constructions of the form focus | topic, that is, constructions in which the focus and the topic are juxtaposed. In such clefts, the topic of the sentence is expressed by means of a noun phrase which is headed by the definite article la when the focus corresponds to the syntactic object, and by the morpheme a when the focus corresponds to the syntactic subject of the sentence.

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期刊介绍： The Journal of African Languages and Linguistics was founded in 1979 and has established itself as an important refereed forum for publications in African linguistics. The Journal of African Languages and Linguistics welcomes original contributions on all aspects of African language studies, synchronic as well as diachronic, theoretical as well as data-oriented. The journal further contains a list of recently published books on African languages and linguistics, which many libraries find to be of use for the acquisition of books. The Journal of African Languages and Linguistics is a peer-reviewed journal of international scope.