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On the relation between noun prefixes and grammaticalisation in Nguni relative clauses.

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dc.contributor.authorZeller, Jochen Klaus.
dc.date.accessioned2013-05-17T13:51:43Z
dc.date.available2013-05-17T13:51:43Z
dc.date.created2006
dc.date.issued2006
dc.description.abstractThis paper discusses morphological and syntactic aspects of relative clauses in two related Southern Bantu language groups. In Sotho-Tswana, object relative clauses are formed by means of clause-initial relative complementisers which agree with the head noun. In contrast, object relatives in the Nguni languages are formed by means of relative concords which are attached to the relative clause predicate and express agreement with the subject. I suggest that the Nguni relative concords are the result of a grammaticalisation process in which early Nguni relative complementisers first turned into clitics and then into relative concords. On the basis of a detailed analysis of this process I further argue that the syntactic difference between Sotho-Tswana and Nguni relative clauses is correlated with a morphological difference between nouns in these languages.en
dc.identifier.citationZeller, J. 2006. On the relation between noun prefixes and grammaticalisation in Nguni relative clauses. Studia Linguistica 60(2) pp. 220-249.en
dc.identifier.issn0039-3193
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9582.2006.00138.xen
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10413/8927
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherWiley-Blackwell.en
dc.subjectNguni languages--Relative clauses.en
dc.subjectTswana language--Relative clauses.en
dc.subjectSouthern Sotho language--Relative clauses.en
dc.subjectNorthern Sotho language--Relative clauses.en
dc.subject.otherObject relative clause formation.en
dc.titleOn the relation between noun prefixes and grammaticalisation in Nguni relative clauses.en
dc.typePeer reviewed journal articleen

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