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The Bantu–Romance Connection Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today (LA) Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today (LA) provides a platform for original monograph studies into synchronic and diachronic linguistics. Studies in LA confront empirical and theoretical problems as these are currently discussed in syntax, semantics, morphology, phonology, and systematic pragmatics with the aim to establish robust empirical generalizations within a universalistic perspective. General Editors Werner Abraham Elly van Gelderen University of Vienna / Rijksuniversiteit Arizona State University Groningen Advisory Editorial Board Cedric Boeckx Christer Platzack Harvard University University of Lund Guglielmo Cinque Ian Roberts University of Venice Cambridge University Günther Grewendorf Lisa deMena Travis J.W. Goethe-University, Frankfurt McGill University Liliane Haegeman Sten Vikner University of Lille, France University of Aarhus Hubert Haider C. Jan-Wouter Zwart University of Salzburg University of Groningen Volume 131 The Bantu–Romance Connection. A comparative investigation of verbal agree- ment, DPs, and information structure Edited by Cécile De Cat and Katherine Demuth The Bantu–Romance Connection A comparative investigation of verbal agreement, DPs, and information structure Edited by Cécile De Cat University of Leeds Katherine Demuth Brown University John Benjamins Publishing Company Amsterdam / Philadelphia TM The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of 8 American National Standard for Information Sciences – Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ansi z39.48-1984. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data The Bantu-Romance connection : A comparative investigation of verbal agreement, DPs, and information structure / edited by Cécile De Cat and Katherine Demuth. p. cm. (Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, issn 0166-0829 ; v. 131) Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Bantu languages--Grammar, Comparative--Romance. 2. Romance language-- Grammar, Comparative--Bantu. I. De Cat, Cécile. II. Demuth, Katherine. PL8025.1.B36 2008 496'.39045--dc22 2008023397 isbn 978 90 272 5514 3 (Hb; alk. paper) © 2008 – John Benjamins B.V. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form, by print, photoprint, microfilm, or any other means, without written permission from the publisher. John Benjamins Publishing Co. · P.O. Box 36224 · 1020 me Amsterdam · The Netherlands John Benjamins North America · P.O. Box 27519 · Philadelphia pa 19118-0519 · usa Table of contents Acknowledgements vii List of contributors ix Introduction xi Part 1. Clitic and agreement Concepts of structural underspecification in Bantu and Romance 3 Lutz Marten, Ruth Kempson & Miriam Bouzouita On different types of clitic clusters 41 Anna Cardinaletti Pronominal object markers in Bantu and Romance 83 Marie Labelle The Bantu-Romance connection in verb movement and verbal inflectional morphology 111 Carolyn Harford Part 2. The structure of DPs DP in Bantu and Romance 131 Vicki Carstens On the interpretability of φ-features 167 Roberto Zamparelli Agreement and concord in nominal expressions 201 Giuliana Giusti A unified syntactic analysis of Italian and Luganda nouns 239 Franca Ferrari-Bridgers vi The Bantu-Romance connection: A comparative investigaton Part 3. Information structure The fine structure of the topic field 261 Mara Frascarelli Focus at the interface: Evidence from Romance and Bantu 293 João Costa & Nancy C. Kula Agreement in thetic VS sentences in Bantu and Romance 323 Jenneke van der Wal Index of languages 351 General index 353 Acknowledgments We wish to acknowledge the financial support of the European Science Founda- tion (grant #EW05-242), the British Academy (grant #BCG-41902) and the Lin- guistic Association of Great Britain which helped bring to life the Bantu-Romance Connection ESF Exploratory Workshop (Leeds, May 2006). Every stage of the workshop and this volume was extensively reviewed. We would especially like to express our gratitude to the team of Bantu and Romance scholars who provided extensive comments on the chapters of the book. Each chapter was reviewed by both a Bantuist and a Romanist. Thanks also to the con- tributors and participants for having embarked with us on this project, and for having made it such a stimulating experience. List of contributors Miriam Bouzouita Katherine Demuth King’s College London Department of Cognitive & Linguistic Philosophy Department Sciences The Strand Brown University London, WC2R 2LS Box 1978 United Kingdom RI 02912 [email protected] Providence USA Anna Cardinaletti [email protected] Ca’ Foscari University of Venice Dipartimento di Scienze del Linguaggio Franca Ferrari-Bridgers Ca’ Bembo – Dorsoduro 1075 Department of Speech and Communication 30123 Venezia Studies Italy IONA College [email protected] 18 President Street, New Rochelle, NY [email protected] Vicki Carstens University of Missouri-Columbia Mara Frascarelli Department of English Università degli Studi Roma Tre 107 Tate Hall Dipartimento di Linguistica Columbia, MO 65211 Via Ostiense, 236-00146 Roma USA Italy [email protected] [email protected] João Costa Giuliana Giusti Departamento de Linguistica Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia Faculdade de Ciências Sociais Dipartimento di Scienze del Linguaggio e Humanas Ca’ Bembo – Dorsoduro 1075 Av. de Berna, 26 C 30123 Venezia 1069-061 Lisbon Italy Portugal [email protected] [email protected] Carolyn Harford Cécile De Cat Midlands State University Department of Linguistics & Phonetics P Bag 9055 School of Modern Languages and Cultures Gweru University of Leeds Zimbabwe Leeds [email protected] LS2 9JT UK Ruth Kempson [email protected] King’s College London
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