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In this paper, I shall discuss the status of Hausa resumptive pronouns. I shall argue that the asymmetry between island-sensitive wh-extraction and island-insensitive relativisation is best captured at the filler site, rather than at the gap site. The analysis proposed here builds crucially on recent HPSG work on island-insensitive rightward movement, arguing in favour of anaphoric processes within a theory of extraction.
A great many thanks to the anonymous reviewers, as well as to the audience of Formal Grammar 2010 for their stimulating and helpful comments, in particular Irina Agafonova and Carl Pollard. I am also gratefully indebted to Stefan Müller for his remarks on an earlier version of this paper.
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Crysmann, B. (2012). Resumption and Island-Hood in Hausa. In: de Groote, P., Nederhof, MJ. (eds) Formal Grammar. FG FG 2010 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7395. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32024-8_4
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