The Locative Class in Shengologa (Kgalagadi)

ISBN-13: 9783631349380 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 240 str.

Sabine Neumann

Opis

Shengologa (Kgalagadi) is a Bantu language spoken in the Republic of Botswana. The present volume describes a set of nouns in Shengologa. This set of nouns is distinguished within a synchronic analysis from other grammatical categories on purely formal grounds and reanalysed as one class only: the locative class. The extent to which prefixes of this class interact with other parts of grammar leads to the establishment of several form classes. All established form classes coincide with the semantic reference -locative-."

Spis treści

Contents: Locative Class Nouns - Locative Prefixes on Locative and Non-Locative Class Nouns - Locative Prefixes in the Formation of Spatial Adverbials - The Locative Suffix - Locative Concord.

O autorze

The Author: Sabine Neumann studied African Linguistics and Social Anthropology at Bayreuth University, Germany. She was a member of the Cognitive Anthropology Research Group (Max-Planck-Institute for Psycholinguistics) at Nijmegen, The Netherlands, and conducted field research in Botswana. Since 1997 she has been working as research fellow at the University of Frankfurt am Main, Germany.