Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface and acknowledgments
- List of abbreviations
- 1 Grammatical form
- 2 Analyzing word structure
- 3 Constituent structure
- 4 Semantic roles and Grammatical Relations
- 5 Lexical entries and well-formed clauses
- 6 Noun Phrases
- 7 Case and agreement
- 8 Noun classes and pronouns
- 9 Tense, Aspect, and Modality
- 10 Non-verbal predicates
- 11 Special sentence types
- 12 Subordinate clauses
- 13 Derivational morphology
- 14 Valence-changing morphology
- 15 Allomorphy
- 16 Non-linear morphology
- 17 Clitics
- Appendix: Swahili data for grammar sketch
- Glossary
- Reference
- Language index
- Subject index
Appendix: Swahili data for grammar sketch
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface and acknowledgments
- List of abbreviations
- 1 Grammatical form
- 2 Analyzing word structure
- 3 Constituent structure
- 4 Semantic roles and Grammatical Relations
- 5 Lexical entries and well-formed clauses
- 6 Noun Phrases
- 7 Case and agreement
- 8 Noun classes and pronouns
- 9 Tense, Aspect, and Modality
- 10 Non-verbal predicates
- 11 Special sentence types
- 12 Subordinate clauses
- 13 Derivational morphology
- 14 Valence-changing morphology
- 15 Allomorphy
- 16 Non-linear morphology
- 17 Clitics
- Appendix: Swahili data for grammar sketch
- Glossary
- Reference
- Language index
- Subject index
Summary
Write a “grammar sketch,” i.e. a short description of Swahili grammar, based on the data provided here. Write your description in prose, including charts and/or tree diagrams where helpful. You may follow the suggested outline below, or you may create your own. Data sources: Ashton (1944); Barrett-Keach (1985); Comrie (1976b); Healey (1990b); Vitale (1981).
Possible outline for grammar sketch
Introduction: language name, where spoken, number of speakers, basic typological information. (Swahili is spoken primarily in Tanzania and Kenya, and is recognized as a national language in both countries. Many different dialects exist; this exercise is based on “Standard Swahili,” as reflected in various published grammars.)
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- Analyzing GrammarAn Introduction, pp. 334 - 340Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2005