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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      October 2009
      October 2004
      ISBN:
      9780511486302
      9780521573788
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511486302
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.395kg, 166 Pages
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      • Subjects:
      Grammar and Syntax, Computational Linguistics, Language and Linguistics
      Series:
      Cambridge Syntax Guides
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    Subjects:
    Grammar and Syntax, Computational Linguistics, Language and Linguistics
    Series:
    Cambridge Syntax Guides
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    This comprehensive book provides a detailed description of the major syntactic structures of Chichewa. Assuming no prior knowledge of current theory, it covers topics such as relative clause and question formation, interactions between tone and syntactic structure, aspects of clause structure such as complementation, and phonetics and phonology. It also provides a detailed account of argument structure, in which the role of verbal suffixation is examined. Sam Mchombo's description is supplemented by observations about how the study of African languages, specifically Bantu languages, has contributed to progress in grammatical theory, including the debates that have raged within linguistic theory about the relationship between syntax and the lexicon, and the contributions of African linguistic structure to the evaluation of competing grammatical theories. Clearly organised and accessible, The Syntax of Chichewa will be an invaluable resource for students interested in linguistic theory and how it can be applied to a specific language.

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    "The work captures the major syntactic structures of Chichewa while acknowledging the importance of the morphology of the Bantu verb and its argument structure. This work will be of interest to the student of Chichewa, the student of linguistics and the theoretical syntactician." The International Journal of African Historical Studies John P. Hutchinson, Boston University

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