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The syntax of copular constructions in Mauritian

Domain:

natural language processing

Record type:

paper
Creator:
HenAbe
Editor:
Lab
Publisher:
CCSDCSL
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This paper examines the syntactic behavior of the Mauritian copula in predicative and extracted sentences. As it is the case in many languages, the Mauritian copula ete is absent in certain constructions: It only appears in extraction contexts. Our aim is to show that the postulation of a null copula, which has been proposed in various analyses, is inadequate for the Mauritian data. The phenomenon, as it is argued, rather lends itself to a strictly construction-based analysis within the framework of HPSG and is based on the distribution of weak pronouns and TAM markers.

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shs.hal.science

Languages

Morisyen

Tags

C-ACTI[SHS.LANGUE]Humanities and Social Sciences/Linguistics

Licenses

info:eu-repo/semantics/OpenAccess

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