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Where's the topic in Zulu?

✍ Scribed by Cheng, Lisa Lai-Shen; Downing, Laura J.

Book ID
111965563
Publisher
Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG
Year
2009
Tongue
German
Weight
389 KB
Volume
26
Category
Article
ISSN
0167-6318

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✦ Synopsis

This article provides a detailed investigation of the prosody and syntax of dislocation in Durban Zulu, an Nguni Bantu language spoken in South Africa. With focus elements obligatorily appearing in an immediately after the verb position, non-focused elements within a verb phrase have to be right-or leftdislocated. We discuss the asymmetries between right-and left-dislocation, showing that only left-dislocated elements can be topics. We argue that aside from a pre-subject Topic position, there is also a Topic position between the subject and the verb phrase. The prosodic phrasing cues in Zulu show that both the CP and the Ξ½P phases play a crucial role in determining the alignment with Intonational Phrases.

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