Negation in Ewe (Tongugbe) Agent Nominalization
Selikem Gotah, Soo-Hwan Lee
August 2023
 

Drawing on evidence from the scope patterns and the availability of NPI licensing of the negation marker ma-, we show that NegP is realized in Ewe (Tongugbe) agentive nominals. We conclude that agentive nominals accommodate sentential negation, posing a challenge to previous assumptions. The implication of this work is that agent nominalization can be more verbal-like than what has been reported in the literature. We further examine where the Ewe agentive suffix-la resides in syntax based on the argument structure of the predicates realized inside agentive nominals.
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Reference: lingbuzz/006823
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Published in: Accepted for publication in Syntax
keywords: agent nominalization, ewe, negation, syntax
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