Thesis
A lexical-functional analysis of Swahili relative clauses
- Abstract:
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After an overview of Swahili's linguistic situation and a basic description of its nominal morphology, verbal morphology, and syntax, I focus on a description of relative clauses. The two basic relative clause formation strategies (the first utilizing the '-o of Reference' as a verbal infix, and the second involving 'amba-') are examined, along with their use in various semantic contexts. I then examine canonical examples of relative clauses from the literature and from corpora in order to hi...
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+ Dalrymple, M
Division:
HUMS
Department:
Linguistics Philology and Phonetics Faculty
Role:
Supervisor
Bibliographic Details
- Publication date:
- 2011
- Type of award:
- MPhil
- Level of award:
- Masters
- Awarding institution:
- University of Oxford
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- Language:
- English
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- UUID:
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- Local pid:
- ora:6805
- Deposit date:
- 2013-04-16
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- Copyright holder:
- Lipps, J
- Copyright date:
- 2011
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