Allotey (2021): overt pronouns of infinitival predicates of Gã #
This file formalizes [All21]. Obligatory control into Gã irrealis
ni-clauses requires an overt subject proclitic: null PRO is ungrammatical, a
lexical subject is ungrammatical, and the proclitic shows the whole OC signature
(Table 2). The controlled clause is non-finite and irrealis rather than
subjunctive — it bars tense and aspect, focus fronting and free reference,
licenses NPIs across its boundary, negates preverbally, and carries the irrealis
marker only as a high tone on its subject (Table 4). The pronoun is overt
because that tone needs a segmental host. The subject markers are pronouns,
not agreement: the verb is invariant across subjects (§4.4) and a marker
cannot double a lexical subject (§6.1), against the affixal analysis of
[Cam17]; Gã is therefore a non-pro-drop language (§2.1). [DH13b]'s
101A coding of Gã, made from [AO68], is affixal too.
Everything is read off the paper's example rows and the Fragment. The control
profile of a clause type is [Lan13]'s signature as the rows attest it
(Control.ofAttested): no row attests a criterial configuration of the
ni-clause, so it is obligatory control, while the finite akɛ-clause attests
free reference. Complementizer selection is Verb.Takes over the Fragment's
frames; every finiteness diagnostic is a row theorem conditioned on the
complementizer's finiteness alone, the paper's convergence argument; Table 4 is
the exponents the rows show in each irrealis context, and the tone-hosting
requirement then derives the overt pronoun from the minimal-pronoun inventory.
Implementation notes #
The paper's pro-drop status is its own reading of its 101A cell, obligatory
subject pronouns (§4.2), and is stated here rather than in the Fragment because
[DH13b] codes the same markers as affixes; wals_codes_affixes records
the discrepancy and no_agreement_rows the paper's evidence against it. The
bound-variable row of Table 2 rests on the de se example (53); the paper
has no only test, so Control.Diagnostic.strictUnderOnly is never attested
and the bound-variable clause of the signature holds unrefuted rather than
tested. The paper tests reference only in the ni- and akɛ-clauses, so the
comparison with [Lan04a]'s scale is stated for those two.
References #
Pronouns (Table 3) #
Only second and third person singular have a dedicated objective form.
The paradigm distinguishes case in the second and third person singular alone: every other referential category has one form for all three columns of Table 3.
Every referential category has a form: the one form of first person plural wɔ covers clusivity and the number of others alike.
Each cell of Table 3 has one subject form.
Subject pronouns are not agreement (§4.4, §6.1) #
The verb of exx 79–81 is the one form tee 'went' whatever the person of its subject: Gã marks no subject agreement on the verb.
The paper's cell of [DH13b]'s 101A: subject pronouns are obligatory and object pronouns omissible (§4.2).
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[DH13b] codes the same markers as subject affixes on the verb, not
pronominalSubjects: the analysis of [Cam17] too, against which an
affix would co-occur with a lexical subject (ex 123) and could not be
separated from its verb by negation (ex 125). Gã's WALS code is ga; gaa
is Gaagudju.
Complementizer selection (§5.5.1) #
The three-way clause typology is the selection relation: each clause type's frame takes exactly its own complementizer.
[WL23]'s hierarchy at Gã's granularity: a proposition
complement is exactly one whose frame takes a finite complementizer;
situations and events share the infinitival ni-frame.
Subject and object control are both in the inventory (Table 2).
Rows #
Gã has no context-specific vocabulary item for minimal pronouns, so the elsewhere pronoun realizes every context.
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- Allotey2021.gaInventory = { items := [], elsewhere := Binding.MinimalPronoun.Form.pronoun }
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The Fragment entry for a row's matrix verb.
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- Allotey2021.verbOf row = (row.feature? "verb").bind fun (x : String) => Verb.find? Ga.verbs x
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The clause type a complementizer feature names.
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- Allotey2021.clauseOf "ni" = some Ga.EmbeddedClauseType.ni
- Allotey2021.clauseOf "ake" = some Ga.EmbeddedClauseType.ake
- Allotey2021.clauseOf "keji" = some Ga.EmbeddedClauseType.keji
- Allotey2021.clauseOf x✝ = none
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A row's clause type is its complement's, or the finite type for a matrix clause the paper labels finite.
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A row records reading r with judgment j.
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- Allotey2021.reads row r j = ∃ x ∈ row.readings, x = (r, j)
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- Allotey2021.instDecidableReads row r j = Allotey2021.instDecidableReads._aux_1 row r j
The realized form of a row's embedded subject.
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In the rows whose only point is the shape of the controlled subject, the control frame is grammatical exactly with the inventory's control form (exx 2–3, 34–44, 54–59 vs 40–41).
A lexical subject in the control frame is out (exx 42b–c, 64) — the copy the Movement Theory of Control ([Hor99]) would pronounce.
A complementizer is grammatical exactly when the verb takes it (exx 104–106).
Overt tense or aspect in the complement is grammatical exactly in the finite clause types (exx 101, 111).
Focus fronting, [Riz97]'s strong-CP diagnostic, is available exactly in the finite clauses (exx 107–108); matrix negation licenses an embedded NPI exactly across the non-finite one (exx 116–117).
Negation precedes the verb exactly in the non-finite clause (exx 121–122, 124).
The embedded subject bears the irrealis high tone exactly in the ni-clause
(exx 110–112, 118).
The irrealis marker #
The marker appears on the subject of the control frame and nowhere else in
the complement data (exx 34, 88–89, 92, 100–103, 106, 109, 112, 117–119,
122); it tracks the frame, not the verb — kai 'remember' takes it in its
ni-frame (exx 43, 117a) and lacks it in its realis akɛ-frame (ex 89a).
In the paper's implicative contrast (ex 89) the marker is absent exactly under the verbs of the Fragment whose affirmed use entails the complement realized ([Kar71a]).
The OC signature (Table 2) #
The antecedent must c-command the controlled pronoun (exx 45–46): grammatical exactly under the paper's c-commanding coindexation.
No long-distance antecedent (exx 47–49): grammatical exactly under the local coindexation.
Under ellipsis the controlled pronoun has the sloppy reading only (ex 52).
A free reading of the embedded subject is available exactly in the finite complement (exx 110–111 vs 92, 112).
Ex 53 witnesses the de se row: infelicitous in its context.
The controlled form φ-covaries with its controller (exx 37–39), unlike [Sat19]'s form-invariant Ewe yè.
An acceptable row attests one control diagnostic, a non-c-commanding or long-distance antecedent by the paper's coindexation, a free reading of the embedded subject, or a strict reading under ellipsis.
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- Allotey2021.attests row Control.Diagnostic.nonCCommandingControl = (row.feature? "antecedent" = some "nonCCommanding" ∧ row.judgment = Judgment.acceptable)
- Allotey2021.attests row Control.Diagnostic.longDistanceControl = (row.feature? "antecedent" = some "longDistance" ∧ row.judgment = Judgment.acceptable)
- Allotey2021.attests row Control.Diagnostic.arbitraryControl = Allotey2021.reads row "free" Judgment.acceptable
- Allotey2021.attests row Control.Diagnostic.strictEllipsis = Allotey2021.reads row "strict" Judgment.acceptable
- Allotey2021.attests row Control.Diagnostic.strictUnderOnly = False
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The diagnostics the rows attest for a clause type.
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- Allotey2021.attested c = {d : Control.Diagnostic | ∃ row ∈ Allotey2021.Examples.all, Allotey2021.clauseTypeOf row = some c ∧ Allotey2021.attests row d}
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- Allotey2021.instDecidablePredDiagnosticMemSetAttested c d = id inferInstance
The control profile of a clause type in [Lan13]'s signature: the clauses no attested diagnostic refutes.
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No row attests a criterial configuration of the ni-clause.
The ni-clause is obligatory control: every clause of the signature holds,
so it admits no criterial configuration. [Sza09]'s long-distance
Agree reaches the embedded subject across this weak CP.
The finite akɛ-clause attests a free reading (exx 110–111).
So it is not obligatory control.
Landau's scale #
Gã clause types on [Lan04a]'s finiteness scale — a scale position, not a mood claim. Unrestricted TAM and independent tense both coincide with the complementizer's finiteness (exx 109–111, 118–119).
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- Allotey2021.gaToLandau c = Control.ClauseClass.ofFiniteness (decide c.complementizer.IsFinite) (decide c.complementizer.IsFinite)
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No Gã clause type is a tensed-but-controlled F-subjunctive.
The scale agrees with the rows where the paper tests reference: OC exactly on the C-subjunctive, at any Agr value — Gã has no φ-agreement (exx 79–81, 123).
In [Noo07]'s typology the non-finite clause is the reduced one:
.infinitive, the paper's own term for the bare-root ni-complement.
Table 4 #
The five irrealis contexts of Table 4.
- subjunctive : IrrealisContext
- imperative : IrrealisContext
- conditional : IrrealisContext
- future : IrrealisContext
- embeddedControl : IrrealisContext
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- Allotey2021.instDecidableEqIrrealisContext x✝ y✝ = if h : x✝.ctorIdx = y✝.ctorIdx then isTrue ⋯ else isFalse ⋯
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- Allotey2021.instReprIrrealisContext = { reprPrec := Allotey2021.instReprIrrealisContext.repr }
The context a row's clauseContext names.
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- Allotey2021.contextOf "subjunctive" = some Allotey2021.IrrealisContext.subjunctive
- Allotey2021.contextOf "imperative" = some Allotey2021.IrrealisContext.imperative
- Allotey2021.contextOf "conditional" = some Allotey2021.IrrealisContext.conditional
- Allotey2021.contextOf "future" = some Allotey2021.IrrealisContext.future
- Allotey2021.contextOf "control" = some Allotey2021.IrrealisContext.embeddedControl
- Allotey2021.contextOf x✝ = none
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- Allotey2021.instDecidableEqExponent x✝ y✝ = if h : x✝.ctorIdx = y✝.ctorIdx then isTrue ⋯ else isFalse ⋯
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- Allotey2021.instReprExponent = { reprPrec := Allotey2021.instReprExponent.repr }
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- Allotey2021.instFintypeExponent = { elems := { val := ↑Allotey2021.Exponent.enumList, nodup := Allotey2021.Exponent.enumList_nodup }, complete := Allotey2021.instFintypeExponent._proof_1 }
A row shows an exponent.
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- Allotey2021.shows row Allotey2021.Exponent.subjectTone = (row.feature? "subjectTone" = some "high")
- Allotey2021.shows row Allotey2021.Exponent.verbTone = (row.feature? "verbTone" = some "high")
- Allotey2021.shows row Allotey2021.Exponent.vowel = (row.feature? "irrealisVowel" = some "present")
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The rows in an irrealis context with judgment j.
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- Allotey2021.rowsIn ctx j = List.filter (fun (row : Datum) => decide ((row.feature? "clauseContext").bind Allotey2021.contextOf = some ctx ∧ row.judgment = j)) Allotey2021.Examples.all
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Table 4 is read off the rows, as the exponents some grammatical row shows in the context (exx 85–86, 93–97, 100–103).
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- Allotey2021.realization ctx = {e : Allotey2021.Exponent | ∃ row ∈ Allotey2021.rowsIn ctx Judgment.acceptable, Allotey2021.shows row e}
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Embedded control realizes the marker as the subject's high tone alone.
The embedded-control realization is unique among the five contexts; in particular it lacks the subjunctive's doubled high tone (ex 88).
The realizations are exact: adding the verb's tone to the control clause (ex 88) or the subject's to the future (ex 96), or dropping the verb's from the subjunctive (ex 87), is ungrammatical.
Deriving the overt pronoun #
A tonal exponent needs a segmental host; the null form has none.
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The controlled-subject form must host the irrealis tone Table 4 places on the embedded-control subject.
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Null PRO is impossible in Gã: a null controlled-subject form cannot host the irrealis tone.
The Gã inventory meets the tone-hosting requirement.
Controlled subjects surface as overt pronouns.