V1 in Kipsigis: Head movement and discourse-based scrambling
Kipsigis (Nilo-Saharan, Kenya) is a verb-initial language that exhibits a VSO/VOS alternation, in which the felicity of postverbal word orders is dependent on information structure. Specifically, the lexical item occupying the immediately postverbal position is discourse-prominent. We propose that V...
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| Language: | English |
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Open Library of Humanities
2019-06-01
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| Series: | Glossa |
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| Online Access: | https://www.glossa-journal.org/articles/246 |