Difference between revisions of "Talk:Annotating Konkomba"
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| − | sry, have to look up the noun class :(, but | + | sry, I would have to look up the noun class for flower in the example above :(, but the interesting point here is that we see the fusion of negation and a pronominal element. The function of this grammatical unit in RR is not to express pronoun negation, that is 'not-them', but rather to mediate nominal negation for a nominal that they 'phorically' relate to. |
| − | not to express pronoun negation, that is 'not-them', but rather to mediate nominal negation for a nominal that they 'phorically' relate to. | + | |
--[[User:Dorothee Beermann|Dorothee]] 18:20, 16 December 2009 (UTC) | --[[User:Dorothee Beermann|Dorothee]] 18:20, 16 December 2009 (UTC) | ||
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On negative marking in Konkomba
Is there a grammatical term for a lexical entry made up of two different parts of speech fused together? Could we call it a 'negative conjunction', or is there a more technical term?
I would suggest to annotate kaa and baa as follows:
At the point were TypeCraft will allow to record base forms of words and morphemes it will also be possible to add that k has the base form ki and b
has the base form bi.
--Dorothee 18:06, 16 December 2009 (UTC)
Negative Marking in Runyankore-Rukiga
Runyankore-Rukiga is a Bantu languages spoken in Uganda. The negative particle is ti. This prefix can occur attached to a pronoun which agrees anaphorically or cataphorically with a noun to express negation of noun phrases:
sry, I would have to look up the noun class for flower in the example above :(, but the interesting point here is that we see the fusion of negation and a pronominal element. The function of this grammatical unit in RR is not to express pronoun negation, that is 'not-them', but rather to mediate nominal negation for a nominal that they 'phorically' relate to. --Dorothee 18:20, 16 December 2009 (UTC)