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| − | + | Sereer frequently extracts or fronts nominal arguments and marks the verb of the affected clause with a suffix '''-u'''. This page is dedicated to describing the syntactic patterns and permissible structures that of a constituent that signals focus on the fronted constituent. Examples are below, and will be elaborated upon eventually. Note that a suffix '''-u''' co-occurs with this fronting in nearly all cases; this could be analyzed as an extraction marker. (Exponence of non-past tense in the second example is not clear.) |
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Revision as of 17:28, 14 December 2012
Sereer frequently extracts or fronts nominal arguments and marks the verb of the affected clause with a suffix -u. This page is dedicated to describing the syntactic patterns and permissible structures that of a constituent that signals focus on the fronted constituent. Examples are below, and will be elaborated upon eventually. Note that a suffix -u co-occurs with this fronting in nearly all cases; this could be analyzed as an extraction marker. (Exponence of non-past tense in the second example is not clear.)
U-Extraction in Wh-questions
See also the page on Questions.
| a buga [o gar]. |
| a= | bug | -a | o= | gar |
| 3SG | want | NPT | 2SG | come |
He wants you to come. (151)
| [o gar] a bugu. |
| o= | gar | a= | bug | -u |
| 2SG | come | 3SG | want | EXTR.ARG |
He wants you to come. (151)
Reduplication of predicates cannot occur when wh-extraction of the subject is marked: qaarit ke a laaɓiira (laaɓiir) 'the friends are generous' but qaarit qum laaɓiiru (*laaɓiir)?, 'which friends are generous?' (115)
U-Focus
kaa
The "preverb" kaa may mark verbal focus on the verb immediately following. More research is needed on this point.
