A Relational Grammar of Kinyarwanda |
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
RELATIONAL GRAMMAR | 21 |
VERBAL SYNTACTIC DEPENDENTS | 30 |
PROPERTIES OF TERMS | 53 |
OBJECTIVIZATION RULES | 79 |
SUBJECTIVIZATION RULES | 126 |
RAISINGS | 149 |
PRONOMINALIZATION | 173 |
TOPICALIZATION | 191 |
CONCLUDING REMARKS | 208 |
Notes | 225 |
Bibliography | 243 |
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a-ra-andik-a a-ra-shaak-a áana aara ábáana Abaantu Abagabo akazi amafaraanga Bantu languages benefactive blackboard causativization chair chalk Chapter child chomeurs class marker cleft cliticized complement Constraints construction dative dative shift deleted demoted derived direct object embedded sentence girl's Givón grammatical relation head noun I-pst-see-asp íbárúwa ibíryo igitabo íkárámu ímbwa imibáre inalienable possession incorporated pronouns indirect instrumental inzu it-pres-be jects John Kabgayi Keenan Kimenyi Kinyarwanda kwaa locative NP main verb manner NP Maríya Mary math matrix sentence morpheme n'umugabo non-terms ntebe objectivized oblique case NPs oblique NPs oôbwa passivization perfective aspect POSS possessive possessor NP preposition promotion pronoun incorporation properties pseudo-clefting racyaa read the books reflexivization Relational Annihilation Law Relational Grammar relative clauses relativization semantic she-pres-write-asp shuûri stativization subjunctive mood suffix syntactic teacher tense tone transformations Umugabo Umugore Umuhuûngu Umuk umukoôbwa Úmwáalímu úmwáana undergo verb stem vowel wh-question y-a-boon-ye Yohaâni