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Peer reviewedCreider, Chet A. – Anthropological Linguistics, 1975
Noun classes are said to have semantic content and be organized on a semantic basis. The system of organization is drawn up showing that divisions are made between unit and mass; under unit, shape and non-shape; under mass, liquid, lumpy, etc. Shape is divided into extended, curved, non-extended, etc. (SC)
Descriptors: African Languages, Bantu Languages, Classification, Descriptive Linguistics
Peer reviewedHarries, Lyndon – African Studies, 1973
Descriptors: African Languages, Bantu Languages, Descriptive Linguistics, Language Patterns
Download full textStewart, Osamuyimen Thompson – 1994
The serial verb construction (SVC) in Edo (Bini), a language spoken in Nigeria, is examined, and an analysis that systematically characterizes the notion of functional relationship of verbs within these constructions is proposed. It is argued that the verbs in series are sensitive to different semantic and grammatical phenomena and are therefore…
Descriptors: African Languages, Bini, Foreign Countries, Grammar
Bodomo, Adams B. – 1993
An integrated analysis of the syntax and semantics of serial verb constructions (SVCs) in a group of West African languages is presented. With data from Dagaare and closest relatives, a structural definition for SVCs is developed (two or more lexical verbs that share grammatical categories within a clause), establishing SVCs as complex predicates.…
Descriptors: African Languages, Foreign Countries, Grammar, Language Patterns
Awad, Maher – 1994
A discussion of Bolanci (also Bole or Bolewa), a West Chadic language spoken in northeastern Nigeria, focuses on one component of the system of complementation, the form "na." This form has an inherent semantic capable of influencing the meaning of sentences in which it is embedded, specifically, when present in a complex sentence,…
Descriptors: African Languages, Foreign Countries, Form Classes (Languages), Grammar
Mamman, Munir – 1994
The positional definition of Hausa noun and verb, which uses person and aspect markers "y, s, and t" as criteria, is criticized as an unreliable framework for identification of nouns and verbs. It is proposed that this is so for nouns because a word may appear as a noun without any of the three markers. Verbs are more central than the…
Descriptors: African Languages, Classification, Foreign Countries, Form Classes (Languages)
Berlin, Brent – 1969
Criticism has been directed at a growing body of literature broadly referred to as ethnoscience, ethnosemantics, folk science, ethnographic semantics, and cognitive anthropology. Criticisms concern methodological and analytic aspects of ethnoscientific procedure, and the directions of ethnosemantic research from a theoretical point of view. The…
Descriptors: African Languages, Anthropology, Classification, Color
Drouin, Patrick, Ed.; And Others – 1993
Papers from a 1993 conference on linguistics, all in French, include essays on the following: Yoruba morphophonology; literary Arabic morphophonology; grammatical cohesion in Burushaski; phonological and lexical variation in French Canadian dialects, including Acadian; insults in Madrid Spanish; discourse analysis; maintenance of meaning in…
Descriptors: African Languages, American Indians, Arabic, Berber Languages
