ABSTRACT
One of the results from chapter 2 is that resultative SVCs constitute a single event, while the consequential SVC and the CC are made up of two events. This present chapter examines more evidence for this distinction based on an asymmetry in the predicate cleft construction. 1 The phenomenon of predicate cleft is a way of focusing a verb that involves moving a category (XP or XO depending on the analysis) that is associated with it (cf. Piou 1982, Koopman 1984, Hutchinson 1989, Lumsden & Lefebvre 1990, Lefebvre and Larson 1991, Ameka 1992, Dekydtspotter 1992, Manfredi 1993, DeGraff 1993, Lefebvre 1994, etc.).2 Predicate clefts have been attested in several African languages or language families, including Kwa and Kru. Predicate clefts have been said to express several meanings such as contrastive, emphatic and factive--although I do not know of an analysis that attempts to provide a unified account for all these meanings, or even if they are all from the same underlying predicate cleft structure (cf. Collins 1994, Lefebvre 1994).3 The sentences in (1)- (4) illustrate the predicate cleft construction in Ed6: 4
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a. OZQ kp919' Ozo be-big 'Ozo is big.'
