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The Syntax of Chichewa Sam Mchombo (University of California, Berkeley)

The Syntax of Chichewa By Sam Mchombo (University of California, Berkeley)

The Syntax of Chichewa by Sam Mchombo (University of California, Berkeley)


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This clearly organised and accessible new book provides a comprehensive description of the major syntactic structures of Chichewa. Assuming no prior knowledge of current theory, it covers topics such as relative clause and question formation, interactions between tone and syntactic structure, and aspects of clause structure such as complementation.

The Syntax of Chichewa Summary

The Syntax of Chichewa by Sam Mchombo (University of California, Berkeley)

This comprehensive book provides a detailed description of the major syntactic structures of Chichewa. Assuming no prior knowledge of current theory, it covers topics such as relative clause and question formation, interactions between tone and syntactic structure, aspects of clause structure such as complementation, and phonetics and phonology. It also provides a detailed account of argument structure, in which the role of verbal suffixation is examined. Sam Mchombo's description is supplemented by observations about how the study of African languages, specifically Bantu languages, has contributed to progress in grammatical theory, including the debates that have raged within linguistic theory about the relationship between syntax and the lexicon, and the contributions of African linguistic structure to the evaluation of competing grammatical theories. Clearly organised and accessible, The Syntax of Chichewa will be an invaluable resource for students interested in linguistic theory and how it can be applied to a specific language.

The Syntax of Chichewa Reviews

The work captures the major syntactic structures of Chichewa while acknowledging the importance of the morphology of the Bantu verb and its argument structure. This work will be of interest to the student of Chichewa, the student of linguistics and the theoretical syntactician. The International Journal of African Historical Studies John P. Hutchinson, Boston University

About Sam Mchombo (University of California, Berkeley)

Sam Mchombo is Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics, University of California at Berkeley.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction; 2. Phonetics and phonology; 3. Clause structure; 4. Relative clauses, clefts and question formation; 5. Argument structure and verb stem morphology; 6. Argument structure reducing suffixes; 7. The verb stem as a domain of linguistic processes.

Additional information

NPB9780521573788
9780521573788
0521573785
The Syntax of Chichewa by Sam Mchombo (University of California, Berkeley)
New
Hardback
Cambridge University Press
2004-10-14
166
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