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Hahn, Michael: Word Order Variation in Khoekhoe
Khoekhoe, a Central Khoisan language, has been claimed to have a clause-second position and
topological fields similar to German and Dutch. The position in front of the clause-second position
can be occupied by either the matrix verb or a dependent. We argue that monomoraic words are exempt
from the general head-final order of Khoekhoe and suggest that this can give rise to discontinuous
constituents, where second-position clitics intervene within the VP. We show that this idea provides
a simple account of Khoekhoe word order variation and formalize it within a linearization-based HPSG
analysis that has a wider scope than the previous Minimalist analyses of Khoekhoe and that is
compatible with evidence from tonology.
Maintained by Stefan Müller Created: October 15, 2013 Last modified: January 09, 2019 |
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