Abstract
The narrow goal of this paper is to provide a uniform accounting of two seemingly unrelated phenomena in Wolof – predication and exhaustive identification – which both involve Amovement of a nominal to Spec,CP. In doing so, we provide a compositional semantics for movement which may be extended well beyond Wolof. In Wolof, exhaustive identification of a DP involves moving it to Spec,CP, as in (1). The unmarked way of doing nominal predication involves moving the predicative NP to the same position, in (2). In both cases, the complementizer that hosts the moved nominal in its specifier is the A-movement complementizer (l)a.
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