Syntactic accommodation within the verbal phrase in Hausa
Keywords:
syntactic relations, Hausa, verbal phraseAbstract
The paper examines syntactic relations within Hausa verbal phrase and shows their surface exponents calling them markers of syntactic accommodation. These markers, encoded within a predicate or situated outside the predicate indicate the types of objects/complements following the verb and help in defining the status of a verb not followed by any objects. The paper classifies exponents of syntactic relations and discusses their functions.
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