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Emphatic properties of object marking in Ikalanga

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natural language processing

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paper
Creator:
LetColDiercks, Michael
Publisher:
Language Science Press
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This paper builds on Letsholo (2013), documenting additional properties of objectmarking in Ikalanga (Bantu, Botswana and Zimbabwe). We show that the ability ofobject markers to co-occur with overt objects is highly constrained by pragmaticcontext. These co-occurrence constructions are linked with corrective focusreadings and mirative focus readings, along with verum focus readings (as first noticedby Letsholo 2013). We also detail some persistent analytical puzzles regarding thefocus interpretations associated with OM-Obj co-occurrence in Ikalanga.

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Kalanga

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