The Setswana i(n) Verbal Prefix.
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| Title: | The Setswana i(n) Verbal Prefix. |
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| Language: | English |
| Authors: | Chebanne, Andy M. |
| Peer Reviewed: | N |
| Page Count: | 11 |
| Publication Date: | 1992 |
| Document Type: | Reports - Descriptive Speeches/Meeting Papers |
| Descriptors: | Bantu Languages, Foreign Countries, Morphemes, Morphology (Languages), Prefixes (Grammar), Semantics, Structural Analysis (Linguistics), Structural Grammar, Syntax, Uncommonly Taught Languages |
| Abstract: | The Setswana language possesses a verbal prefix that, according to some grammarians of the language such as D. T. Cole, is categorized as the reflexive prefix, closely allied to objectival concords. If the morphology suggests that this morpheme be characterized as a reflexive object prefix, it does not always give expected results in its semantic and syntactic role. The notion of reflexive object signifies that the referent of the subject term of the transitive verbal form cumulates the two roles normally devolving to two distinct participants respectively represented by the subject and the object. (MDM) |
| Entry Date: | 1994 |
| Accession Number: | ED368205 |
| Database: | ERIC |
| Abstract: | The Setswana language possesses a verbal prefix that, according to some grammarians of the language such as D. T. Cole, is categorized as the reflexive prefix, closely allied to objectival concords. If the morphology suggests that this morpheme be characterized as a reflexive object prefix, it does not always give expected results in its semantic and syntactic role. The notion of reflexive object signifies that the referent of the subject term of the transitive verbal form cumulates the two roles normally devolving to two distinct participants respectively represented by the subject and the object. (MDM) |
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