By Zygmunt Frajzyngier
The quantity includes papers ready for the foreign Symposium of Chadic Linguistics (Boulder, Colorado, might 1-2, 1987). even if the papers are consultant of the present paintings being performed within the box of Chadic linguistics, additionally they replicate the present and earlier pursuits and methodologies of common linguistics. The papers incorporated within the quantity should still hence be of curiosity to a common linguist up to to the Chadicist or a consultant in another Afroasiatic department. The papers are grouped by means of the components of linguistic fields and methodologies. Papers on syntax are through papers on morphology, phonology, and method of historic reconstruction.
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I am grateful to Laurie Tuller who introduced and guided me in the study of a Chadic language. Also, I would like to thank Isabelle Haik, Mireille Tremblay, and Bamba Moussa for comments and criticism of earlier versions of this paper. This research is supported by a grant from the Canadian government, CRSH #411-85-0012, and the Quebec government, FCAR #87-EQ-2681. CANAC MARQUIS 56 It will be argued that a VSO analysis which makes use of case theory to derive the VSO order faces serious problems when applied to a language like Gude and, consequently, cannot be maintained as a general analysis for VSO languages.
Schuh's (1971) discussion of subject focussing in a number of Chadic languages suggests a solution to this problem when he treats independent forms as underlying in these languages. If we assume that at D-structure governors assign independent Case which in these languages is inherent Case, we can treat independent forms in structures analogous to (27). We must assume then that V "assigns" independent "Case" at D-structure and objective Case at S-structure. Further, we must assume that AGR assigns independent Case at D-structure and NOM Case at Sstructure.
Pronouns do not occur after the nominalizer ma in the imperfective. The suffix is used with the possessive/dative pronoun set. o. o. takes independent pronoun form. B. J. JOHNSON 42 In non-verbal sentences, such as the construction meaning "Someone has X" like Hausa, Yana da doki 'He has a horse', the independent pronoun is used. In this construction gən is the normal preposition 'with' parallel to Hausa da. (15) a. b. c. 2. Pronoun Forms in Non-Neutral Word Order. Elements in the Kanakuru sentence may be focussed.