There is a long-standing debate on the nature of definiteness in natural language: does it
involve familiarity, uniqueness, or both? This paper contributes to the debate by providing a …

In this paper, we examine vowelelision in Yoruba and show, based on data not
previouslydiscussed in the literature, that elisionis driven by prosodic requirements. In …

This thesis discusses four selected topics on Yoruba nominal expressions: the syntax of
possessives, the construal of bare nouns, the marking of specificity and salience, and plural …

In this dissertation, I demonstrate that a clear understanding of the properties and behaviors
of personal pronouns and null operators resolves some of the puzzles surrounding UG …

This paper provides evidence for a kind of nominal licensing (Vergnaud licensing) in a
number of morphologically caseless languages. Recent work on Bantu languages has …

This dissertation discusses the distribution of object pronouns, subject and object
resumptive elements, and clausal determiners in Kwa (Niger-Congo) languages, particularly …

Minimalist approaches often implicitly assume a version of the Case Filter (Chomsky 1981,
Vergnaud 1977), whereby, even in languages without morphological case, overt DPs must …

The term 'logophoric pronoun'or 'logophor'goes back to Hagège (1974) and has been widely
used since Clements (1975). A simplified view of logophors is that they occur in the context …

In this dissertation, I investigate the syntax of A′-dependencies (wh-movement, focus
movement, relativization and topicalization) in Bamileke Medumba, a Grassfields Bantu …

This article discusses the dependency relations between pronouns and the logophoric
operator in Yoruba. It proposes that logophoric effects are results of the A-bar dependency …