Subject relative clauses in Dagbani

This paper is concerned with subject relative clauses in Dagbani, a Mabia language spoken in northern Ghana, as these have received little attention in the literature compared to other relative clause constructions. We will argue that a successful syntactic analysis depends on a double headed relati...

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Published inGlossa (London) Vol. 10; no. 1; pp. 1 - 49
Main Authors Mursell, Johannes, Hartmann, Katharina
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published London Open Library of Humanities 19.02.2025
Ubiquity Press
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Dagbani language
Grammatical subject
Gur languages
Language
Relative clauses
Research Article
Syntactic analysis
Ghana
relative clauses
Mabia
double headed structures
subject/object asymmetries
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Summary:This paper is concerned with subject relative clauses in Dagbani, a Mabia language spoken in northern Ghana, as these have received little attention in the literature compared to other relative clause constructions. We will argue that a successful syntactic analysis depends on a double headed relative clause structure, with one relative clause internal and one relative clause external head. In addition to discussing the syntax of an understudied language, the paper thus provides further evidence for relative clauses being based on double headed structures, at least in some languages.
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ISSN:2397-1835
2397-1835
DOI:10.16995/glossa.10572