The syntax of Dagbani personal pronouns

What is it about?

This study explores the personal pronouns of Dagbani, a Mabia language in Northern Ghana, and demonstrates that Dagbani personal pronouns can be modified by quantifiers, occur in coordinate constructions, and encode topic and focus as discourse properties. Also, the nonemphatic forms have pre/post-verbal distributional properties.

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Why is it important?

This research article contributes to knowledge by adding clarity to some syntactic and distributional issues about personal pronouns in Dagbani, especially concerning the pre/post-verbal distribution of the nonemphatic pronouns in conjunction and coordinated structures.

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