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Aspects of Complementation in Three Bantu Languages

By Carolyn Harford Perez

This work analyzes aspects of verbal complementation in three of the Bantu languages, Shona (Zimbabwe), Kikuyu (Kenya), and Kiruúndi (Burundi), within the framework of the Government-Binding theory of syntax. The starting point of the analysis is the observation that these languages permit NP-movement from the subject position of a tensed complement clause, thus constituting apparent counterexamples to Government-Binding theory as formulated in Chomsky (1981), particularly the subtheories of abstract Case and Binding. Perez thus explores the consequences of an analysis of these data which incorporates changes in the theory as applied to Bantu.

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