Argument licensing and agreement
The strikingly unrestricted syntactic distribution of nouns in many Bantu languages often leads to proposals that syntactic case does not play an active role in the grammar of Bantu. This book offers a different conclusion that the basis of Zulu that Bantu languages have not only a system of structural case, but also a complex system of morphological case that is comparable to systems found in languages like Icelandic.--Publisher's description.
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The strikingly unrestricted syntactic distribution of nouns in many Bantu languages often leads to proposals that syntactic case does not play an active role in the grammar of Bantu. This book offers a different conclusion that the basis of Zulu that Bantu languages have not only a system of structural case, but also a complex system of morphological case that is comparable to systems found in languages like Icelandic.--Publisher's description.
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- Publication Date:2016
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- Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication:Oxford
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2016
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- Description:xvi, 296 pages : : illustrations ; : 25 cm.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780190256487, 0190256486, 9780190256470, 0190256478
- oclc:ocn909081204
- LC Classification:PL8842
- Dewey Decimal:496/.39865
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