par Guitang, Guillaume
Editeur scientifique Akumbu Wuchu, Pius;Chie, Esther Phubon
Référence Engagement with Africa, Linguistic Essays in Honor of Ngessimo M. Mutaka, Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, Köln, Vol. 58, Ed. 1, Grammatical Analyses of African Languages, page (470)
Publication Publié, 2019
Partie d'ouvrage collectif
Résumé : The goal of this paper is to examine the process of personal pronoun encliticisation in Masa.Contrary to Melis (1999) and Ousmanou (2007) who postulate two forms of the personalpronoun (disjoined and conjoined forms), it is argued that Masa has only one set of personalpronouns namely, the conjoined forms. These are shown to encliticise leftward to theclosest constituent within their clitic group considered here to be the phrasal domain. Theso-called disjoined forms are shown to derive from a conspiracy of two phonetic form (PF)processes (consonant insertion and tone melody assignment) fed by the absence of a validhost for encliticisation to take place. In order to account for apparent exceptions to theanalysis (object reordering, anaphoric demonstratives and focus movement), it is assumedthat the operation merge is a dynamic process which takes successive chunks of structures tothe PF component where morpho-phonological processes apply.