A Minimalist Account of Wh-Movement in Fulfulde

作     者：Bashir Usman Baba-Kura Alkali Gazali 

作者机构：University of MaiduguriNigeria 

出 版 物：《Language and Semiotic Studies》 (语言与符号学研究（英文）)

年 卷 期：2020年第6卷第1期

页      面：104-119页

学科分类：0502[文学-外国语言文学] 05[文学] 050210[文学-亚非语言文学] 

主　　题：wh-movement minimalist Fulfulde interpretable and uninterpretable features complementizer 

摘      要：Operator movement is one of the scholastic views which have been advanced to analyse expressions that contain an operator of some *** this work,attention will be focused on interrogative operator in *** work examines the nature of wh-movement in Fulfulde using the minimalist *** conducting the research,primary and secondary sources of data collection were *** native speaker’s intuition forms the primary source of data while the secondary source involves three competent native speakers of Adamawa Fulfulde to validate the *** outcome of the study reveals four types of wh-movement in *** four types of wh-movement in Fulfulde are the subject preposed from its canonical position in declarative sentences to a new position in interrogative *** are both left to right movement and right to left *** interrogative questions are marked by an optional‘na’at the end of the *** is possible and grammatical to have double interrogatives but only one of the elements can *** movement is determined by proximity,short or long movement of the interrogative marker to either left to right or right to ***,wh-or interrogative element in Fulfulde is represented by-ye and-e suffixes bound to stems of pronouns and some ***-piping and preposition stranding are also *** some whmovement,the question remains in place called wh-in-situ;here,the interrogative marker does not move at *** this happens the interrogative marker occupies the position of the element in *** there is movement,each move element leaves behind a trace marked by‘t’and the trace is co-indexed so that we can see the extraction sites and the landing sites of the elements that have *** direct object preposed to the complementizer position through wh-movement and the subject of the main clause raises and moves into the subject position of the relative clause in order to check the question feature of comp