Transitivity-aspect interactions in Igbo: a view from event delimitation

Abstract

Certain lgbo verbs which are obligatorily transitive in non-perfective constructions may appear without an overt
complement only in perfectives. Building on a limited previous literature on event delimitation in Igbo, an initial
syntactic framework is given first for Igbo cognate objects and next for the perfective / non -perfective alternation.
A unified new approach based on event features (as used in Crippen 20 19) is sketched out for future research.