Nominal marking in Northern Tshwa (Kalahari Khoe)

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dc.contributor.authorFehn, Anne-Mariaen_ZA
dc.contributor.authorPhiri, Admireen_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2018-02-15T09:35:20Z
dc.date.available2018-02-15T09:35:20Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.descriptionCITATION: Fehn, A. M. & Phiri, A. 2017. Nominal marking in Northern Tshwa (Kalahari Khoe). Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics, 48:105-122, doi:10.5774/48-0-284.
dc.descriptionThe original publication is available at http://spil.journals.ac.za
dc.description.abstractLanguages of the Khoe family have a complex pronominal system that distinguishes three categories each for person, gender, and number. However, while languages of the Khoekhoe branch and the western subgroup of Kalahari Khoe obligatorily or optionally mark nouns and nominal classifiers for gender and number, the nominal marking system in eastern Kalahari Khoe appears to be undergoing serious reduction. This article discusses data on personal pronouns and nominal gender-number marking in four little-known Northern Tshwa varieties, including data from Tjwao, a severely endangered language spoken by fewer than ten individuals in western Zimbabwe. We analyse personal pronoun use, case distinctions and nominal marking, focussing on characterising features and commonalities shared across the cluster. Our findings show a high degree of uniformity within Northern Tshwa, and at the same time suggest a more complex nominal marking system than was previously assumed for varieties of the Eastern Kalahari Khoe subgroup.en_ZA
dc.description.urihttp://spil.journals.ac.za/pub/article/view/284
dc.description.versionPublisher’s version
dc.format.extent18 pages
dc.identifier.citationFehn, A. M. & Phiri, A. 2017. Nominal marking in Northern Tshwa (Kalahari Khoe). Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics, 48:105-122, doi:10.5774/48-0-284
dc.identifier.issn2223-9936 (online)
dc.identifier.issn1027-3417 (print)
dc.identifier.otherdoi:10.5774/48-0-284
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/103128
dc.language.isoen_ZAen_ZA
dc.publisherStellenbosch University, Department of Linguistics
dc.rights.holderAuthors retain copyright
dc.subjectKhoisan languages -- Nominalsen_ZA
dc.subjectLinguistics -- Africa, Southernen_ZA
dc.subjectAfrica, Southern -- Languagesen_ZA
dc.subjectTso language -- Grammaren_ZA
dc.subjectGrammar, Comparative and general -- Nominalsen_ZA
dc.subjectGrammar, Comparative and general -- Personen_ZA
dc.subjectGrammar, Comparative and general -- Morphologyen_ZA
dc.titleNominal marking in Northern Tshwa (Kalahari Khoe)en_ZA
dc.typeArticleen_ZA
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