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Nzwanga, Mazemba. 1994. A challenge to Burzio´s generalization: impersonal transitives in western Bantu. Linguistics 32 (1) : 47–64.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

impersonal construction | movement | passive | transitivity

Language as a subject

Lingala

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter Mouton

ISBN

0024-3949

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/LING/html

Annotation

This paper demonstrates how the Lingala impersonal transitive construction challenges the universal applicability of Burzio's (1986) explanation for NP-movement in passives.