Finiteness across languages : a case study of the Jê family Ghent University
In this paper we take Jê languages as a case study to investigate the problematic notion of finiteness, a frequently used but still poorly understood notion within linguistics. It has been proposed that finiteness relates to the presence or absence of anchoring (Bianchi 2001, Roussou 2001, Ritter & Wiltschko 2014, Wiltschko 2014, Groothuis 2020). Following Ritter & Wiltschko (2014), we take INFL to be the anchoring category which can ...