- AutorIn
- Daisuke Shinagawa
- Titel
- The syntactic distribution of relativizers and the development of -enye relative constructions in Sheng
- Zitierfähige Url:
- https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa2-709741
- Quellenangabe
- Swahili Forum - 26.2019 - Special Issue Herausgeber: Universität Leipzig
Erscheinungsort: Leipzig
Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
Jahrgang: 26
Seiten: 122-141
ISSN: 1614-2373 - Erstveröffentlichung
- 2019
- Abstract (EN)
- This paper deals with structural variation in Sheng at the syntactic level by focusing on its relative constructions. Although numeral linguistic studies of Sheng have been published since the beginning of this century (Githiora 2002, Mbaabu & Nzuka 2003, Ferrari 2004, Ogechi 2005, Bosire 2006, 2008, Shinagawa 2006, 2007, Beck 2015, among others), their grammatical descriptions tend to be rather limited to the domain of morphology and the syntactic uniqueness of Sheng has scarcely been brought within the scope of precise linguistic analysis. This paper thus aims to describe the syntactic variation, or structural fluidity, found in relative constructions in Sheng and clarify the syntactic distribution of multiple relativizers. Based on these facts and analyses, the developmental process of the -enye construction, which is widely used in other Swahili contact varieties as well, will be further investigated especially from the perspectives of intra-Bantu language contact and cross- Bantu typology.
- Freie Schlagwörter (EN)
- Sheng, relative strategies, -enye, morphosyntactic microvariation, contact-induced change
- Herausgeber (Institution)
- Universität Leipzig
- Version / Begutachtungsstatus
- publizierte Version / Verlagsversion
- URN Qucosa
- urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa2-709741
- Veröffentlichungsdatum Qucosa
- 15.06.2020
- Dokumenttyp
- Artikel
- Sprache des Dokumentes
- Englisch