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Factive Relative Clauses in Wolof

via Zoom

In this talk, I investigate factive constructions in Wolof, an Atlantic language of Senegal.  I show that the constructions, the “li-factive” (1), “verbal factive” (2), are formally relative clauses and I argue that they all involve null nouns in SpecCP.  In the li-factive (1), a relative clause complementizer, l-i, occurs on the left edge of […]

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