The noun classes and concord of Congo Copperbelt Swahili

This paper reconsiders claims that the Swahili of the Congo Copperbelt area has a limited noun class system and an inconsistent system of agreement. It shows that there are, operating side-by-side with the simple system generally presented by scholars, a noun class and concord system of the original...

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Autor principal:	Nkulu Kabuya
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Lenguaje:	EN FR
Publicado:	LibraryPress@UF 1999
Materias:	Swahili Congo agreement noun class concord Philology. Linguistics P1-1091
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:079cd33ceead418292ea04de232d8bf72021-11-19T03:53:46ZThe noun classes and concord of Congo Copperbelt Swahili10.32473/sal.v28i1.1073790039-35332154-428Xhttps://doaj.org/article/079cd33ceead418292ea04de232d8bf71999-06-01T00:00:00Zhttps://journals.flvc.org/sal/article/view/107379https://doaj.org/toc/0039-3533https://doaj.org/toc/2154-428XThis paper reconsiders claims that the Swahili of the Congo Copperbelt area has a limited noun class system and an inconsistent system of agreement. It shows that there are, operating side-by-side with the simple system generally presented by scholars, a noun class and concord system of the original Bantu type, and that the prefixes of the latter are in free variation with those of their simplified versions. This free variation is discussed from grammatical, sociolinguistic, and stylistic perspectives. The conclusion reached is that by spreading change in its lexicon and morphosyntax, Congo Copperbelt Swahili has developed a system of singular/plural prefixes that will eventually replace the traditional class system.Nkulu KabuyaLibraryPress@UFarticleSwahiliCongoagreementnoun classconcordPhilology. LinguisticsP1-1091ENFRStudies in African Linguistics, Vol 28, Iss 1 (1999)
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topic	Swahili Congo agreement noun class concord Philology. Linguistics P1-1091
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description	This paper reconsiders claims that the Swahili of the Congo Copperbelt area has a limited noun class system and an inconsistent system of agreement. It shows that there are, operating side-by-side with the simple system generally presented by scholars, a noun class and concord system of the original Bantu type, and that the prefixes of the latter are in free variation with those of their simplified versions. This free variation is discussed from grammatical, sociolinguistic, and stylistic perspectives. The conclusion reached is that by spreading change in its lexicon and morphosyntax, Congo Copperbelt Swahili has developed a system of singular/plural prefixes that will eventually replace the traditional class system.
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title	The noun classes and concord of Congo Copperbelt Swahili
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The noun classes and concord of Congo Copperbelt Swahili

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