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  • Language Family: Other Benue-Congo
  • Topic #1: Syntax
Traces in the Igbo lang Traces in the Igbo language

This paper examines traces associated with Wh– and NP– movements as they manifest in the Igbo language using the theoretical framework of the Revised Extended Standard Theory (REST) of Chomsky (1965). Based on the above types of movements, certain syntactic processes like trace movement convention, empty category principle, among others must be present for trace to manifest and some processes are born as a result of trace. With the use of the survey research design based on documented information, the paper further examines what happens to the position from where a constituent has moved (trace) and the nature of what is left behind (assuming anything was left). The findings of the paper from various stands of scholars on trace from the literature review and the research analysis show that a trace in Igbo is an index of a higher up phrase with or without a phonetic content. Again, while wh- traces reside in the SPEC – position, a non-argument position, NP – traces can only be found in an argument position; and wh- traces can be co-indexed with a pronoun to its left or right depending on the construction.

   Cet article traite des traces associées aux mouvements Q et à ceux du syntagme nominal telles qu’elles se manifestent en langue igbo en utilisant l’approche théorique de la version révisée de la théorie standard étendue de Chomsky (1965). Sur la base de ces types de mouvements, certains processus syntactiques tels que la convention sur le mouvement de traces, le principe de la catégorie vide, entre autres, doivent être présents pour que la trace se manifeste et s’ensuivent ainsi quelques processus suite à ces traces. Avec l’emploi du protocole de recherche basé sur une documentation bien fouillée, l’article examine également ce qui se passe à la position à partir de laquelle un constituant s’est déplacé (sa trace) et la nature de ce qui reste derrière (pour autant qu’il reste quelque chose). En nous basant sur les positions des chercheurs sur la trace dans la revue de la littérature et sur les résultats de l’analyse de la présente recherche, il ressort que la trace en igbo est un index d’un syntagme supérieur avec ou sans un contenu phonétique. De même, alors que les traces Q résident dans la position du SPEC, qui est une position n’hébergeant pas d’ arguments, les traces du syntagme nominal ne peuvent se trouver que dans une position d’argument ; les traces Q peuvent être co-indexées avec un pronom à leur gauche ou à leur droite, selon la construction.

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