TY  - JOUR
A1  - Issah, Samuel Alhassan
A1  - Smith, Peter William
T1  - Subject and non-subject ex-situ focus in Dagbani
T2  - Glossa: a journal of general linguistics
N2  - This paper offers a description and account of the patterns of 'ex-situ' focus in Dagbani. We show that there are two syntactic strategies for creating 'ex-situ' focus in the language, one involving A’-movement to the left periphery, and the second involving base generation in the left periphery combined with coreference to a resumptive pronoun. Furthermore, we argue that subjects are difficult to move from Spec,TP to Spec,CP in the left-periphery because of 'anti-locality', which creates a tension when trying to focus subjects, which are required to derivationally fill the specifier of both positions. We further show that what looks to be a two-way distinction between the behaviour of subjects and non-subjects in the language is in fact a three-way distinction between subjects that are focussed to a local left-periphery, subjects that are focussed to a non-local left-periphery, and non-subjects. These distinctions arise due to there being two methods for Dagbani to resolve the antilocality problem of subject movement, and so local subjects solve the problem differently to non-local subjects.
KW  - focus movement
KW  - antilocality
KW  - resumptive pronouns
KW  - subject-only resumption
Y1  - 2020
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/53159
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-531592
SN  - 2397-1835
VL  - 5
IS  - Art. 4
SP  - 1
EP  - 36
PB  - Ubiquity Press
CY  - London
ER  -