Pronominal System and Reference in Pulaar

Authors

  • Ibrahima Ba

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17161/1808.19759

Keywords:

Pulaar dialect-- Pronoun

Abstract

This paper examines pronominal reference and the long-distance anaphor in Pulaar, a West African language spoken from Senegal to Niger and Cameroon. I am focusing on Toore, a dialect of Pulaar spoken in southern Senegal. I will first give a sketch of the pronominal system of Pulaar with specific focus to the facts or paradigm that need to be accounted for. I will further show the different contexts that license the antecedent-pronoun coreference as well as the referential nuances that exist between different classes of pronoun. In this regard, I posit that the differences noted in antecedent-pronoun coreference can be explained by definiteness and/or specificity along the lines of Schwarz (2009) and Enç (1991).

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Ba, . I. (2015). Pronominal System and Reference in Pulaar. Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 36, 100-112. https://doi.org/10.17161/1808.19759