Two types of verbal number in Kalenjin pluractionality
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This paper investigates pluractionality in Pokot and Kipsigis, two closely related
varieties of Kalenjin, a macrolanguage belonging to the Southern Nilotic branch of
Nilo-Saharan (Eberhard et al. 2023). Most typological literature (e.g. Corbett 2000),
as well as generative analyses (Amato 2018, Thornton 2019), treat participant
number and pluractionality (=event number) as one category, called verbal number.
However, I show that these two categories cannot be conflated in Kalenjin by
providing novel data, coming from original fieldwork conducted in Kenya. I further
provide the first morphological and semantic description of pluractionality in both
varieties.
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