Tonal reflexes of movement in Asante Twi

We argue that Asante Twi has a process of tonal overwriting on verbs that are crossed by an A’-dependency. It is shown that this view captures the distribution of the process across ex-situ focus constructions, relative clauses and adverbial clauses, which are all contexts involving operator movemen...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Natural language and linguistic theory 2020-08, Vol.38 (3), p.827-885
Hauptverfasser:	Korsah, Sampson, Murphy, Andrew
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Adverbials Affixes Linguistics Natural Language Processing (NLP) Negation Philosophy of Language Phonology Predicate Relative clauses Social Sciences Syntactic movement Syntactic phases Verbs
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