The Kisa Noun Phrase

The phrase is a significant unit of analysis in the grammar of any language. It is not only studied at the syntactic level but also at other levels of analysis-phonology, morphology, semantics, and pragmatics. Different types of phrases have been identified and described in the grammar of English an...

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Published in:美中外语 2015, Vol.13 (10), p.687-700
Main Author: Dr. Emily Ayieta Ondondo
Format: Article
Language:Chinese
Subjects:
元素
句法结构
名词短语
多语言
形态学
肯尼亚
语法分析
语用学
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Summary:The phrase is a significant unit of analysis in the grammar of any language. It is not only studied at the syntactic level but also at other levels of analysis-phonology, morphology, semantics, and pragmatics. Different types of phrases have been identified and described in the grammar of English and other languages. However, the noun and verb phrases are the most important and widely described phrases given that the structure of many languages revolves around the noun and the verb word. Though, there are some studies on the noun phrase in Bantu languages There is no study whatsoever in the literature dealing with the noun phrase in Kisa, a Bantu language spoken in Western Kenya. Moreover, the studies on the noun phrase in Bantu have looked only at the constituents of the noun phrase and their permissible order without considering the relationships that hold between or among these constituents. Adopting a descriptive design and using data generated by the author as a native speaker of Kisa, this paper identif
ISSN:1539-8080
1935-9667