Two talks by Samuel Atintono (Accra College of Education) and Samuel A. Issah (University of Education Winneba) in the Syntax Colloquium
We are happy to announce two talks by Samuel Atintono (Accra College of Education) and Samuel A. Issah (University of Education Winneba) in the Syntax Colloquium.
The talks will take place in person. Room IG 4.301
Date: July 10, 2023
Time: 4 pm – 6 pm ct
Titles: Weak pronoun placement and post verbal particles: A case of object shift in Mabia (Samuel Atintono)
Inaudible syntax in Mabia: The case of fragmentary answers in Dagbani and Gurenɛ (Samuel A. Issah)
Abstracts:
Weak pronoun placement and post verbal particles: A case of object shift in Mabia (Samuel A. Atintono)
In this presentation, we explore the distribution of the postverbal particles la/mi and la/mɛ for Dagbani and Gurenɛ, two Mabia languages spoken in Northern Ghana. We show that they are full DPs and weak pronouns behave different in the syntax regarding the distribution of these verbal particles. Thus, while the la particle of both Dagbani and Gurenɛ requires an overt DP or an...