Nominal phrase structure in Ikyaushi (M.402)
Linguistic treatments of Bantu languages have traditionally focused on broadly historical/ comparative studies or on prototypical characteristics of the family, such as the nominal class system, the complexity of the verbal TAM system, or the tonal system. Consequently, far less attention has been...
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Linguistic treatments of Bantu languages have traditionally focused on broadly historical/ comparative studies or on prototypical characteristics of the family, such as the nominal class system, the complexity of the verbal TAM system, or the tonal system. Consequently, far less attention has been placed upon the nominal phrase as a syntactic unit. To this end, Rugemalira (2007) proposes greater emphasis on Bantu morphosyntax generally. As such, the present study – situated within a broader discussion of the Bantu NP (cf. Chitebeta 2007, Godson & Godson 2015, Lusekelo 2009, Makanjila 2019, Möller 2011, Ondondo 2015, Rugemalira 2007) – builds upon Spier (2016, 2020, 2021) and introduces the first descriptive account of the nominal phrase in Ikyaushi, an underdocumented linguistic variety spoken in the Republic of Zambia and the Democratic Republic of Congo. The data for this study, which arrive from fourteen narratives shared orally by male and female native speakers of the grandparental generation, indicate that seven distinct elements may co-occur with the nominal, but utterances with between one and three co-occurring adnominals are far more frequently attested and more straightforwardly comprehensible to speakers.
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| spelling | doaj.art-01cc31c7770a4270a599f93dd88e068d2023-02-19T15:04:29ZdeuUniversity of Warsaw PressStudies in African Languages and Cultures2545-21342657-41872022-12-015610.32690/56.2156Nominal phrase structure in Ikyaushi (M.402)Troy E. Spier0Florida A&M University, USA; Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador Linguistic treatments of Bantu languages have traditionally focused on broadly historical/ comparative studies or on prototypical characteristics of the family, such as the nominal class system, the complexity of the verbal TAM system, or the tonal system. Consequently, far less attention has been placed upon the nominal phrase as a syntactic unit. To this end, Rugemalira (2007) proposes greater emphasis on Bantu morphosyntax generally. As such, the present study – situated within a broader discussion of the Bantu NP (cf. Chitebeta 2007, Godson & Godson 2015, Lusekelo 2009, Makanjila 2019, Möller 2011, Ondondo 2015, Rugemalira 2007) – builds upon Spier (2016, 2020, 2021) and introduces the first descriptive account of the nominal phrase in Ikyaushi, an underdocumented linguistic variety spoken in the Republic of Zambia and the Democratic Republic of Congo. The data for this study, which arrive from fourteen narratives shared orally by male and female native speakers of the grandparental generation, indicate that seven distinct elements may co-occur with the nominal, but utterances with between one and three co-occurring adnominals are far more frequently attested and more straightforwardly comprehensible to speakers. https://salc.uw.edu.pl/index.php/SALC/article/view/301nominal phrasenoun classesmorphosyntaxadnominal modifiersBantu languages |
| spellingShingle | Troy E. Spier Nominal phrase structure in Ikyaushi (M.402) Studies in African Languages and Cultures nominal phrase noun classes morphosyntax adnominal modifiers Bantu languages |
| title | Nominal phrase structure in Ikyaushi (M.402) |
| title_full | Nominal phrase structure in Ikyaushi (M.402) |
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| title_short | Nominal phrase structure in Ikyaushi (M.402) |
| title_sort | nominal phrase structure in ikyaushi m 402 |
| topic | nominal phrase noun classes morphosyntax adnominal modifiers Bantu languages |
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