Determiner spreading in Rukiga
Abstract: Determiner spreading, the phenomenon whereby adnominal modifiers carry an ‘additional’ determiner, has been studied extensively for a variety of languages, most notably Greek, Semitic, and Scandinavian languages. Interestingly, the same phenomenon occurs in the Bantu language Rukiga. We show how the Rukiga augment is parallel to the Greek determiner in the context of modification, and how it triggers a restrictive reading when present on a larger class of modifiers than familiar so far: relative clauses, adjectives, possessives, and certain quantifiers. Considering its morphosyntactic and interpretational properties, we propose that the variation in the presence versus absence of the augment on modifiers is due to different underlying structures, applying an analysis of determiner spreading in terms of a reduced relative clause structure.
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Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
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Online-Ressource
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Determiner spreading in Rukiga ; volume:61 ; number:5 ; year:2023 ; pages:1285-1339 ; extent:55
Linguistics ; 61, Heft 5 (2023), 1285-1339 (gesamt 55)
- Urheber
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Asiimwe, Allen
Kouneli, Maria
van der Wal, Jenneke
- DOI
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10.1515/ling-2021-0027
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urn:nbn:de:101:1-2023091214051431621697
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Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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14.08.2025, 11:02 MESZ
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Beteiligte
- Asiimwe, Allen
- Kouneli, Maria
- van der Wal, Jenneke