The syntax of copular constructions in Mauritian
- 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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| Author: | Fabiola HenriORCiDGND, Anne AbeilléORCiDGND |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-711574 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.21248/hpsg.2007.8 |
| ISSN: | 1535-1793 |
| Parent Title (English): | Proceedings of the ... International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG) |
| Publisher: | CSLI Publications |
| Place of publication: | Stanford, CA |
| Document Type: | Conference Proceeding |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2007/10/16 |
| Year of first Publication: | 2007 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Contributing Corporation: | International Conference on Head Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (14 : 2007 : Stanford, Calif.) |
| Release Date: | 2024/09/04 |
| GND Keyword: | Mauricien; Kopula |
| Volume: | 14.2007 |
| Page Number: | 20 |
| First Page: | 130 |
| Last Page: | 149 |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 4 Sprache / 40 Sprache / 400 Sprache |
| 4 Sprache / 41 Linguistik / 410 Linguistik | |
| Sammlungen: | Linguistik |
| Linguistik-Klassifikation: | Linguistik-Klassifikation: Syntax |
| Licence (German): |  Creative Commons - CC BY - Namensnennung 4.0 International |
