Morphosyntax of movement dependencies in Haitian Creole

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2008-08-01

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Takahashi, Shoichi
Gracanın Yüksek, Martına

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In Haitian Creole the lexical item ki shows up when a subject (but not an object) undergoes operator movement in wh‐questions, clefts, and relative clauses. We argue that ki is a phonological reflex of agreement between the complementizer and a wh‐phrase. More specifically, the complementizer is spelled out as ki if all its features are checked off by a single goal. We demonstrate that this is accomplished only when the operator is a subject.

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Linguistics and Language, Language and Linguistics

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/49111

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Syntax

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https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9612.2008.00108.x

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S. Takahashi and M. Gracanın Yüksek, “Morphosyntax of movement dependencies in Haitian Creole,” Syntax, pp. 223–250, 2008, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/49111.