Atypical objects in Soninke (West Mande)

• Denis Creissels ^[1]
  1. [1] University of Lyon System

     University of Lyon System

     Arrondissement de Lyon, Francia

     
• Localización: Italian journal of linguistics, ISSN 1120-2726, Vol. 29, Nº. 1, 2017, págs. 25-52
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Atypical objects are defined as phrases that do not represent participants in the event denoted by the verb and nevertheless are encoded like typical patients. Soninke (West-Mande) has cross-linguistically uncommon types of atypical objects expressing duration, interval/distance, or quantitative specification. Their identification as syntactic objects is facilitated by the fact that Soninke has a particularly clear-cut distinction between transitive and intransitive constructions. They can be equally found with otherwise strictly intransitive verbs or with transitive verbs, in which case they occupy the slot normally reserved to the patientive argument