The Morphosyntax of Complement-Head Sequences
Clause Structure and Word Order Patterns in Kwa
Aboh, Enoch Oladé Professor of Linguistics, University of Amsterdam
Print publication date: 2004 (this edition)
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: September 2007
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-515990-5
doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195159905.003.0008
 

Enoch Oladé Aboh
This chapter extends the analysis proposed in Chapter 7 to Gungbe topic constructions and yes-no questions. It is argued that the sentence-final low tone is the reflex of a ‘quasi-null’ morpheme that functions as yes-no question marker (QM). This QM heads an interrogative projection InterP that projects within the C-system and whose specifier hosts the clause. In this context, the QM has scope over the whole clause, which is interpreted as a yes-no question.
Keywords: Gungbe topic constructions, yes-no questions, C-system, clause, yes-no question marker
doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195159905.003.0008
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