The Clause Structure of Wolof: Insights into the Left Periphery
Harold Torrence
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 198] 2013. xiii, 289 pp.
Harold Torrence
List of John Benjamins publications for which Harold Torrence plays a role.
Title
Subjects Generative linguistics | Other African languages | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Articles
2024 Indeterminate pronouns in Kaqchikel Linguistic Variation 24:1, pp. 116–163 | Article
This paper investigates the morphology, syntax, and semantics of five non-interrogative constructions that involve wh-expressions in Kaqchikel, a Mayan language of the K’ichean branch spoken in Guatemala. We focus on the properties of maximal free relative clauses, existential free relative… read more
2013 The morphosyntax of wolof clefts: Structure and movement Cleft Structures, Hartmann, Katharina and Tonjes Veenstra (eds.), pp. 187–224 | Article
This paper examines the structure and derivation of cleft clauses in the Atlantic language Wolof, which possesses distinct clefts for subjects and nonsubjects. I argue that the clefts are based on two syntactically distinct copular constructions. In the subject cleft, the copula occurs with a… read more