PRONOMINAL EMPTY CATEGORIES OF Kistani a: A MINIMALIST APPROACH

This book gives an idea about the nature of agreements with respect to head and argument relations in Kistani a language.Agreement markers which are attached to verbs have been described. The distribution of subject, object, and adjunct agreements in declarative clauses have been examined.Furthermore, subject agreements in jussive and imperative clauses have been shown to have agreement of subject.Finally,agreement markers which are attested in nouns( nominal agreements) in Determiner Phrases have been considered. The book also deals with the licencing and recovering of pronominal empty categories in the veiw of minimalist approach .As a result, it intends to provide new facts which may help others to describe pronominal empty categories in related languages. And it can serve as a source of data for comparative studies.

Autorentext

Tigist Berhe is a lecturer at Bahir Dar University, Ethiopia, in the Department of English Language and Literature. She has received her Bachelor Degree in English from Bahir Dar University in 2004. And she has held her Master's Degree in Linguistics from Addis Ababa University in 2008.