The Syntax of Igbo Causatives A Minimalist Account / Ogbonna Ndubuisi Anyanwu.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Anyanwu, Ogbonna Ndubuisi.

Series:

Landmarks ; 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Igbo language--Causative.

Igbo language.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (189 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2017

Place of Publication:

Port Harcourt : M & J Grand Orbit Communications, 2007.

Summary:

The Landmarks Series is a research and publications outfit funded by the Landmarks Research Foundation to publish recent outstanding doctoral dissertations on any aspect of Nigerian linguistics, languages, literatures and cultures.This study examines causatives in Igbo within the minimalist program.

Contents:

Cover

Title page

Copyright page

Dedication

Editorial Note

Preface

Contents

List of Tables

Abbreviations

Chapter1 - Introduction

1. Preliminary Remarks

1.1 Dialect Choice

1.2 Overview of Certain Linguistic Features of Ngwa Igbo

1.2.1 The Phonology of Ngwa Igbo

1.2.1.1 The Vowel System of Ngwa Igbo

1.2.1.2 Vowel Harmony

1.2.1.3 The Ngwa Igbo Consonant System

1.2.1.3.1 A Note on Some Ngwa Igbo Consonants

1.2.1.4 The Tonal System of Ngwa Igbo

1.2.1.4.1 Lexical Function of Tones in Ngwa Igbo

1.2.1.4.2 Grammatical Function of Tones in Ngwa Igbo

1.2.1.4.3 Tone Classes for Nouns and Verbs

1.2.1.4.4 Tone Marking Convention

1.2.1.5 Ngwa Igbo Syllable Structure

1.2.2Ngwa Igbo Morphology

1.2.2.1 Affixation in Ngwa Igbo

1.2.2.2 Ngwa Igbo Prefixes

1.2.2.3 Ngwa Igbo Suffixes

1.2.2.3.1 Ngwa Igbo Inflectional Suffixes

1.2.2.3.2 Extensional Suffixes in Ngwa Igbo

1.2.2.4 Ngwa Igbo Interfixes

1.2.2.5 A Note on Ngwa Igbo Verb Morphology

1.3 Theoretical Framework

1.3.1 Shortest Move

1.3.2 Greed

1.3.3 Procrastinate

1.3.4 Operations of the MP

Chapter 2 - The Theory of Causativity

2 Preliminary Remarks

2.1 Causatives: A General Review

2.1.1 The Term 'Causative': Some Definitions

2.1.2 Analytical (Syntactic) Causatives

2.1.3 Morphological Causatives

2.1.4 Lexical Causatives

2.2 The Semantics of Causatives

2.2.1 Predicates and States of Affairs

2.2.2 Immediate and Mediated Causations

2.2.3 Causativity and Agentivity

2.2.3.1 Actor: The Generalized Agent-type Role

2.2.4 Ergativity and Causativity

2.3 Changes in Valency and Grammatical Relations

2.3.1 Valency Decreasing Mechanisms

2.3.2 Valency Increasing Mechanism

2.3.2.1 Applicatives

2.3.2.2 Possessor Raising

2.3.2.3 Causatives and Valency Changes.

2.3.2.3.1 Causative of Intransitive Verbs

2.3.2.3.2 Causative of Monotransitive Verbs

2.3.2.3.3 Causative of Ditransitive Verbs

2.4 Causatives: A Theoretical Overview

2.4.1 Comrie (1976a)

2.4.2 Marantz (1984)

2.4.2.1 Marantz's Kinds of Causative Constructions

2.4.2.1.1 Causative Constructions without Merger

2.4.2.1.2 Derived Morphological Causative Constructions

2.4.2.1.3 Merger and Splitting Type of Causative Construction

2.4.3 Baker (1988)

2.4.3.1 Baker's Verb Incorporation Proposal

2.4.3.2 Baker's Verb Incorporation and some Syntactic Principles

2.4.4 Li (1990)

2.4.4.1 An Outline of Li's (1990) Analysis

2.4.4.2 The Range of VI Triggering Verbs

2.4.4.3 CP or VP Complement to Causative Verb

2.4.4.4 Li's (1990) Revision of Chomsky's (1986b) Binding Theory

Chapter 3 - Analytical Causative Constructions

3 Preliminary Remarks

3.1 The Analytical Causative Construction

3.1.1 The Complement to the Causative '-me'

3.1.2 Topicalization, Clefting and the Subject Pronominal Clitic Strategies

3.1.3 Anatomy of the Clause Complement to the Causative Verb '-me'

3.1.4 The Derivation of the me - Analytical Causative

3.1.5 The Abstract Light Verb Proposal

3.1.6 More on the Derivation of Analytical Causatives

Chapter 4 - Morphological Causative Constructions

4 Preliminary Remarks

4.1 The Morphological Causative Constructions

4.1.1 Morphological Causatives and Head Movement/Incorporation

4.1.2 The Morphological Causative &amp

the Empty Category Principle (ECP)

4.1.3 Morphological Causative Formation and Government

Chapter 5 - Lexical Causatives

5 Preliminary Remarks

5.1 Lexical Causatives

5.2 Non-Bipositional Causative Verbs

5.3 Bipositional Causative Verbs

5.4 The Term "Transitivity

5.5 Bipositional Verbs and the Notion of Transitivity.

5.5.1 The Intransitive Bipositional Verbs

5.5.2 The Transitive Bipositional Verbs

5.5.3 Alternating Transitive Causative Bipostional Verbs

5.6 How are Bipositional Verbs Derived?

5.7 Transitivity Alternation: A Cross-linguistic Insight

5.8 Argument Structure of Lexical Items

5.8.1 Argument Structure of Alternating Bipositional Verbs

5.8.2 Argument Structure of Transitive Causative Bipositional Verbs

5.8.3 The Argument Structure of Intransitive Bipositional Verbs

5.9 On the Categorial Status of Members of a Causative Bipositional Verb

5.10 A Case for '-Wa' as a Polysemous Verbal Element

Bibliography

Subject Index

Back cover.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [141]-148) and index.

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ISBN:

9789785431100

978543110X

OCLC:

971246836