The Cartography of Focus and Interrogative Projections in Ǹjò-Kóo

Olaogun S.
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Researches on cartography have made universal predictions on the hierarchies of functional projections in language. Based on this assumption, the structural maps established by Rizzi (1997, 2001b) for the left-peripheral elements suggest very strongly that Interrogative dominates Focus. Nevertheless, a straight-jacket adoption of this proposed hierarchical order to account for these left-peripheral projections in Ǹjò-Kóo would be counterintuitive. Therefore, leaning on empirical and theoretical evidence, the paper calls to question the universality of the cartographers’ claim, and argues that the opposite of the view is true of Ǹjò-Kóo. The paper adopts fieldwork method for data elicitation and descriptive approach as well as minimalist program for analysis of data. Data used in this study were elicited from purposively selected native speakers based on language proficiency. Data were acquired with syntactic checklist and structured interviews, and were subjected to interlinear and qualitative analysis.
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Ǹjå-Kóo的焦点和疑问投影制图
地图学研究对语言中函数投影的层次结构做出了普遍的预测。基于这一假设,Rizzi(19972001b)为左侧外围元素建立的结构图非常有力地表明,疑问支配焦点。然而,直接采用这种拟议的层次顺序来解释Ǹjå-Kóo中的这些左外围投影将违反直觉。因此,基于经验和理论证据,本文对制图师的主张的普遍性提出了质疑,并认为与此相反的观点对Ǹjå-Kóo来说是正确的。本文采用田野调查法进行数据挖掘,采用描述性方法进行数据分析,并采用极简程序进行数据分析。这项研究中使用的数据是根据语言熟练程度从有目的地选择的母语人士中得出的。数据通过句法检查表和结构化访谈获得,并进行语际分析和定性分析。
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