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Events for September 20, 2019 – Linguistics Graduate Students Association Events for September 20, 2019 – Linguistics Graduate Students Association

Augustina’s talk on Anaphoricity Marking in Akan

I revisit the interpretation of the so-called definite determiner, nò in Akan. I contend that contrary to previous analyses, nò is not a definite determiner of type <<e,t>e>. Rather, I claim it is as a partial identity function which triggers an anaphoric presupposition. The main advantage of the present theory is that it presents a uniform semantics of the … Read More