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Title
Agreement with conjoined noun phrases in Swahili |
Full text
http://ul.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A11552; http://ul.qucosa.de/api/qucosa%3A11552/attachment/ATT-0/ |
Date
2012 |
Author(s)
Marten, Lutz |
Contributor(s)
University of London; Universität zu Köln |
Abstract
The aim of this paper is to show that Swahili has several strategies to resolve verbal agreement with conjoined noun phrases. In section 2, I give a brief summary of the situation as depicted in grammatical descriptions of Swahili. I then present a number of examples - mainly taken from Muhammed Said Abdulla's (1976) novel Mwana wa Yungi hulewa - illustrating different strategies of agreement with conjoined NPs. In section 4, I present an analysis of one of the strategies discussed and argue that the choice of different strategies is not only based on dialect or speaker variation, but rather can be related to information structure and the dynamics of interpretation. |
Subject(s)
info:eu-repo/classification/ddc/496; ddc:496; Swahili; Linguistik; Nominalphrase; Swahili, Linguistik, Nominalphrasen; Swahili, linguistics, noun phrases |
Language
eng |
Relation
urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-93696; qucosa:11587 |
Type of publication
doc-type:article; info:eu-repo/semantics/article; doc-type:Text |
Source
Swahili Forum 7 (2000), S. 75-96 |
Rights
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
Identifier
urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-91718 |
Repository
Dresden - Hochschulschriftenserver
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