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2019
- handle: 10670/1.cm7bbf
- isbn: 978-0-19-871239-8 978-0-19-178092-9
- hal: hal-04701793
- doi: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198712398.013.41
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Cédric Patin et al., « Kiswahili and Shingazidja », HALSHS : archive ouverte en Sciences de l’Homme et de la Société, ID : 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198712398.013.41
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This chapter is a detailed discussion of ellipsis in Kiswahili and Shingazidja, two languages belonging to the G.40 group of Bantu languages. Building upon various arguments, including the use of tests established by Ngonyani (1996, 1998) and Greenberg (2005) and the examination of prosodic patterns, it is shown that several kinds of ellipsis are possible in these languages: clausal ellipses (gapping, stripping, argument cluster coordination), sluicing and fragments, comparative ellipsis, N-deletion, etc. Special attention is given to gapping and V-stranding VP-ellipsis, a structure that has previously been discussed in the literature on Bantu languages. The differences between the two languages, such as the fact that right-node raising is only possible in Shingazidja, are also addressed. The final section discusses the absence of two types of predicate ellipsis in these languages, namely English-like VP-ellipsis and English-like pseudogapping.