| dc.creator |
Rugemalira, Josephat M. |
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| dc.date |
2016-08-25T12:31:30Z |
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| dc.date |
2016-08-25T12:31:30Z |
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| dc.date |
2007 |
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| dc.date.accessioned |
2018-03-27T08:45:40Z |
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| dc.date.available |
2018-03-27T08:45:40Z |
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| dc.identifier |
Rugemalira, J.M., 2007. The structure of the Bantu noun phrase. Working Papers in Linguistics, p.137. |
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| dc.identifier |
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11810/3567 |
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| dc.identifier.uri |
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11810/3567 |
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| dc.description |
Studies of the noun in Bantu languages have traditionally concentrated on the
morphology of the noun with its elaborate class system and the underlying semantic
strands. When treatment of the noun and its dependents is undertaken or mentioned it
is usually with special focus on the concord system (Nurse & Philippson 2003).
Rarely have scholars paid attention to the syntax of the noun and its dependents.1
References to the structure of the noun phrase are usually very brief (see among
others Massamba et al. 1999, Harjula 2004, Ngonyani 2003, Meeuwis 1998, Mous
2004).
Part of the interest in the structure of the noun phrase relates to questions of
syntactic categories and their determination. Of interest too is the question of what
recursive structures are processable in natural language. This paper discusses the
syntax of the noun phrase in several Bantu languages. It examines the larger syntax of
the noun and its dependent elements and addresses the following questions:
(i) what elements can modify the Bantu noun and in what order?
(ii) which elements can co-occur and/or recur in the modification structure and
what criteria are relevant in categorizing the dependents of the noun?
(iii) is there a saturation point in the modification structure? |
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| dc.language |
en |
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| dc.title |
The Structure of the Bantu Noun Phrase |
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| dc.type |
Working Paper |
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