Relative Clauses in Luganda (E.15/J.10)

Author: Livingstone Walusimbi †. Series edited by: Bernd Heine, Wilhelm J.G. Möhlig †.

Series: EALD East African Languages and Dialects Volume 6

1996
100 pp.
6 diagrams, numerous tables and charts
Text language(s): English
Format: 160 x 240 mm
280 g
Paperback
€ 36.80

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This is the only in depth study of the relative clause in Luganda, a Bantu language (J.10) of major importance. Based on a dissertational manuscript, it has been revised and updated by the author according to the latest development of the Transformational Grammar model. It is a rare example where, in the field of African languages, the Transformational Model is applied by a mother tongue speaker. A methodological comparison of such a study with one of the alien writers may shed light on the significance of the question raised. In this book, relativization is analysed as a process which involves transformational rules. The analysis focuses on relative clause formation, the relationship between relative clause and focus constructions, a detailed examination of headless relative clauses and predicate sentences, stacked and conjoined restrictive relative clauses and constraints on relativization.

The former doctoral thesis which the author wrote at the University College of Los Angeles (UCLA) was supervised by Talmy Givón. The author reviewed and updated his manuscript during a research visit at the University of Cologne.

Under these links you will find grammatical descriptions, text collections and dictionaries of further Great Lakes Bantu languages (Uganda / Rwanda / Tanzania, as well as an etymological analysis of the cultural vocabulary in this region:

Accompanying material:

• A Grammatical Sketch of the Lusaamia Verb (E.34/J.34) (ISBN 978-3-89645-546-8)
• Igikuria Phonology and Morphology (E.40) (ISBN 978-3-89645-029-6)
• Linguistic Landshapes (ISBN 978-3-89645-085-2)
• Phonology and Morphology of Ekegusii (E.42) (ISBN 978-3-89645-026-5)
• SUGIA Sprache und Geschichte in Afrika (ISBN 978-3-89645-090-6)
• The Ha Language of Tanzania (ISBN 978-3-89645-027-2)
• The Historical Reconstruction of Great Lakes Bantu Cultural Vocabulary (ISBN 978-3-89645-095-1)
• Wörterbuch Kinyarwanda–Deutsch (ISBN 978-3-89645-588-8)

Cross-reference:

• „Mehr als nur Worte ...” (ISBN 978-3-89645-125-5)
• A Linguistic Bibliography of Uganda (ISBN 978-3-89645-180-4)
• A Modern Runyoro-Rutooro Grammar (J.10) (ISBN 978-3-89645-023-4)
• African Linguistics at the Crossroads (ISBN 978-3-89645-120-0)
• Erwachsenenbildung in Äthiopien und Uganda (ISBN 978-3-89645-684-7)
• Kinyamwezi (ISBN 978-3-927620-40-7)

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