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Classes in Kiswahili
A Study of their Forms and Implications
Author: Assibi Apatewon Amidu. Series edited by: Bernd Heine, Wilhelm J.G. Möhlig †.
Series: EALD East African Languages and Dialects Volume 8
199718 pp. Roman, 440 pp.
11 tables, 5 diagrams, author and subject index
Text language(s): English
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As compared to the more classical frameworks which have been used in the past to deal with Swahili grammar, this book aims at an alternative approach. The author calls it Linguistic Empirical Grammar (LEG), whose basic principles are: explanatory relevance, plausibility, verification, confirmability and refutation. The author consequently applies these principles to the class system of Swahili, thus coming to unexpectedly new insights into the grammatical structure of this language, which other scholars of Swahili believed to be clarified and exhaustively described long time ago.
This monograph is a challenge to traditional linguistic thinking. It will certainly stimulate the debate on questions of linguistic description not only for Swahili but also for Bantu languages in general. In addition, this grammatical approach will open up for the reader entirely new perspectives of the structure of Swahili.
Following the links below you will find further analyses of Swahili grammar by the same author:
Accompanying material:
- Argument and Predicate Relations in Kiswahili
(ISBN 978-3-89645-042-5 ) - Locative and Non-locative in Kiswahili Bantu
(ISBN 978-3-89645-713-4 ) - Matrix Nominal Phrases in Kiswahili Bantu
(ISBN 978-3-89645-550-5 ) - Objects and Complements in Kiswahili Clauses
(ISBN 978-3-89645-560-4 ) - Pronouns and Pronominalizations in Kiswahili Grammar
(ISBN 978-3-89645-543-7 ) - Reflexive and Reciprocal Syntax Revisited
(ISBN 978-3-89645-707-3 ) - Reflexives and Reflexivization in Kiswahili Grammar
(ISBN 978-3-89645-028-9 ) - Semantic Assignment Rules in Bantu Classes
(ISBN 978-3-89645-703-5 )
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