Pronominal System and Reference in Pulaar
This paper examines pronominal reference and the long-distance anaphor in Pulaar, a West African language spoken from Senegal to Niger and Cameroon. I am focusing on Toore, a dialect of Pulaar spoken in southern Senegal. I will first give a sketch of the pronominal system of Pulaar with specific foc...
| Published in: | Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics |
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of Kansas
2015-01-01
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1808/19759 |
| Summary: | This paper examines pronominal reference and the long-distance anaphor in Pulaar, a West African language spoken from Senegal to Niger and Cameroon. I am focusing on Toore, a dialect of Pulaar spoken in southern Senegal. I will first give a sketch of the pronominal system of Pulaar with specific focus to the facts or paradigm that need to be accounted for. I will further show the different contexts that license the antecedent-pronoun coreference as well as the referential nuances that exist between different classes of pronoun. In this regard, I posit that the differences noted in antecedent-pronoun coreference can be explained by definiteness and/or specificity along the lines of Schwarz (2009) and Enç (1991). |
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| ISSN: | 2378-7600 |