In:Above and Beyond the Segments: Experimental linguistics and phonetics
Edited by Johanneke Caspers, Yiya Chen, Willemijn Heeren, Jos Pacilly, Niels O. Schiller and Ellen van Zanten
[Not in series 189] 2014
► pp. 42–59
The problems of adverbs in Zulu
Published online: 10 December 2014
https://doi.org/10.1075/z.189.04che
https://doi.org/10.1075/z.189.04che
Adverbs in Durban Zulu appear to have contradictory properties. On the one
hand, when they appear with intransitive verbs, they phrase prosodically with
the verb, just like direct objects. On the other hand, adverbs which appear with
transitive verbs are like typical adjuncts, which are adjoined above νP, and they
are prosodically phrased separately from the rest of the sentence. We suggest
that due to the nominal character of adverbs in Zulu, they can be selected by
the verb. Selected materials (including selected adverbs) are merged at the time
of main structure building, while non-selected adverbs and other adjuncts are
merged late. The timing of the merger of adverbs reflects their prosodic phrasing
properties.
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