Hyperactivity and Hyperagreement in Bantu
Abstract: Many Bantu languages exhibit A-movements and patterns of iterating agreement that are disallowed in Indo-European languages. In Minimalist theory, both agreement and movement are constrained by an Activity requirement stipulating that goals in Agree relations must have an unchecked uninter...
| Publicado en: | Lingua Vol. 121; no. 4; pp. 721 - 742 |
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Elsevier B.V.
Apr2011
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