Definiteness Marking on VPs/ TPs in Ga and Ngamo

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Definiteness Marking on VPs/ TPs in Ga and Ngamo

Grubic, Mira; Renans, Agata
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URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10900/73963
http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:21-dspace-739634
http://dx.doi.org/10.15496/publikation-15369
Dokumentart: ConferenceObject
Date: 2017-01
Language: English
Faculty: 5 Philosophische Fakultät
Department: Philosophische Fakultät
DDC Classifikation: 400 - Language and Linguistics
490 - Other languages
Keywords: Linguistik , Semantik , Feldforschung , Ga-Sprache , Kwa-Sprachen , Niger-Kongo-Sprachen
Other Keywords: Tschadische Sprachen
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Abstract:

There is a growing body of cross-linguistic evidence that languages can mark events as definite (e.g. Baker and Travis, 1997, Iatridou, 2014, Larson, 2003, Hole, 2011, Onea, 2011). We contribute to this discussion by presenting original data from Ga (Kwa) and Ngamo (West-Chadic). Although both languages exhibit overt definiteness marking on VPs/TPs which is, at first glance, very similar, we argue that whereas Ngamo marks the topic situation, the situation that the utterance is about, as definite, Ga marks the event indicated by the verb as definite.

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