Abstract Swahili exhibits a construction where a tensed and an infinitival clause are coordinated. This is an example of “unbalanced” coordination insofar as one verb is tensed and the other is not. Furthermore, the licensing of an overt subject in the infinitival clause problematizes Case Theory because infinitival clauses do not assign nominative case. The construction is also puzzling because although it bears some characteristics of pseudo-coordination it also has properties reminiscent of true coordination. Despite the theoretical questions this raises, the construction has not been adequately addressed in the literature: to our knowledge, this paper presents the first-ever theoretical analysis of this construction. We argue that the conjuncts are at least coordinated AgrSPs (the subject agreement phrase) dominated by TP (the tense phrase) which licenses case-marked subjects in both conjuncts.

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斯瓦希里语协调式不定式和非经典案例标记

摘要斯瓦希里语表现出一种构造，其中张力子句和不定式子句相互协调。就一个动词被拉紧而另一个动词不被拉紧而言，这是“不平衡”协调的一个例子。此外，在不定式从句中公开主题的许可使案例论成为问题，因为不定式从句不指定主格。这种构造也令人费解，因为尽管它具有伪协调的某些特征，但它也具有让人联想到真正协调的特性。尽管提出了理论上的问题，但该结构尚未在文献中得到充分解决：据我们所知，本文提出了对该结构的首次理论分析。