Technical Reports #5-8 Now Available

Afranaph Technical Reports

In addition to the case files on our site, where grammar sketches, anaphora sketches and other language specific essays and materials are to be found, it has always been our hope that our project would inspire theoretical and empirical work that makes use of the crosslinguistic data and analysis that our project has made available, and now we are ready to inaugurate our open-ended series of Technical Reports. These reports will occasionally be preliminary versions of essays that may eventually be revised for publication elsewhere (like Technical Report #1) and they will touch upon any topic relevant to empirical domains addressed by Afranaph or Afranaph sister projects.

The abstract of Afranaph Technical Report #1, Syntax, Binding and Patterns of Anaphora, version 1.0 (Ken Safir, 2011) is as follows:

Since the inception of the Afranaph Project, the theoretical motivations for our interest in exploring the rich empirical evidence pertaining to patterns of anaphoric interpretation have been largely taken for granted, at least with respect to what has been visible on the website. However, in the course of writing a version of this essay for the Cambridge Handbook of Generative Syntax, I realized that it would be useful for visitors to the site to have a good source for references about the issues that underlie some of the areas we have chosen to focus on, both in our elicitations and in the anaphora sketches that we have written and that we will write in the future. Although this essay was originally written on the assumption that people who will read it are familiar with the assumptions of generative grammar, there are a number of issues, including those surrounding the interpretation of binding, the morphology of pronouns and anaphors, and some of he locality issues, that should still be intelligible, and hopefully useful, to those with less training in generative grammar. Besides the interpretation, locality effects and morphology of anaphoric forms and the meanings they represent, the essay also explores and evaluates leading theories and analyses designed to explain the form and distribution of anaphoric relations in natural language.

Technical Report #2, Approaching Body Part Reflexives, was written by Eric Reuland and Dagmar Schadler (UiL OTS, Utrecht University)

Technical Report #3, Paradigms and Questionnaires: studying the verbal tone system of a Bantu language, was written by Michael Marlo (University of Missouri)

Technical Report #4, One True Anaphor, was written by Ken Safir

Technical Report #5, Actual Clauses in Lubukusu , was written by Mark Baker, Ken Safir and Justine Sikuku (Moi University)

Technical Report #6, Sources of (A)symmetry in Bantu Double Object Constructions , was written by Mark Baker, Ken Safir and Justine Sikuku

Technical Report #7, Compex Anaphora in Lubukusu , was written by Ken Safir, Justine Sikuku and Mark Baker

Technical Report #8, On the Categories of Clausal Constituents in Lubukusu and Limits to their Selection , was written by Mark Baker, Ken Safir and Justine Sikuku

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