Object Movement in Negative Constructions in Standard Yorùbá  

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Jenis: Article from Journal
Dalam koleksi: SKASE: Journal of Theoretical Linguistics vol. 6 no. 2 (Feb. 2009), page 83-92.
Topik: negative verb; object; sí ‘to be’; kò/kì negative marker; movement
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The object of the negative verb sí ‘to be’ in standard Yorùbá can optionally move to the Spec-IP position in the same clause. This feature is however, peculiar to this verb. This movement could only take place where sí occurs with the negative morpheme kò or kì. Sí cannot occur in an affirmative sentence; wà, its affirmative counterpart, would occur in that environment. Wà can only occur in a negative sentence with kò if it is preceded by the pre-verb lè. The syntactic process where the object of sí moves to the empty subject position is called object movement in negative constructions.

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