Marking of Syntactic Relations In Kunama
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2012-10
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Addis Ababa University
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The purpose of this thesis is to present a description of the morphosyntactic
marking of syntactic relations in Kunama (Shukre). To accomplish this
objective basic techniques of marking syntactic relations like case marking,
adpositional marking, and constituent order are discussed and applied to
Kunama. The study adopts Basic Linguistic Theory as its theoretical framework
and all the descriptions are from the perspective of this theory. In the case
marking section the study reaches the conclusion that there are two core cases
called nominative and objective as well as many peripheral cases. The
characteristics of all these cases are discussed in detail. Constituent order
(SOV) helps to identify arguments. Finally, the language has also a very rich
system of possession-marking constructions.
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Syntactic Relations