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The value of typology in solving certain Zulu linguistic issues

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dc.contributor.author Bosch, Sonja E.
dc.date.accessioned 2012-05-21T07:02:52Z
dc.date.available 2012-05-21T07:02:52Z
dc.date.issued 1993
dc.identifier.citation Bosch, S.E.1993.The value of typology in solving certain Zulu linguistic issues.South African Journal of African Languages,vol.13,no.4:pp.103-107. en
dc.identifier.issn 0257-2117
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10500/5707
dc.description.abstract A typological study of a language family can throw light on specific linguistic issues in a language belonging to such a family.In Zulu there is for instance uncertainty regarding the use of the object agreement marker in conjunction with its co-referential noun that this uncertainty might be ascribed to the fact that Zulu seems to be going through a transitional phase concerning object-verb agreement. Another problem concerns the invariable form of the reflexive prefix in Zulu.A typological study indicates that 'reflexiveness' surfaces in different ways in the Bantu language family.Therefore the origins of the invariable reflexive prefix in Zulu can possibly be explained against the background of a continuum representing the various surface realizations of the reflexive in other Bantu languages. 'n Tipologiese studie van 'n taalfamilie kan lig werp op spesifieke taalkundige kwessies in 'n taal wat aan so 'n familie behoort.In Zulu heers daar byvoorbeeld onsekerheid aangaande die gebruik van die voorwerpskakel in kombinasie met sy ooreenstemmende naamwoord in die basiese sinsposisie. 'n Tipologiese ondersoek oor voorwerpskongruensie in ander Bantoetale dui aan dat hierdie onsekerheid toegeskryf kan word aan die feit dat Zulu klaarblyklik in 'n oorgangsfase is wat voorwerpskongruensie aanbetref.'n Ander probleem raak die onveranderlike vorm van die refleksiefprefiks in Zulu. 'n Tipologiese studie dui aan dat 'refleksiwiteit' op verskillende maniere in die Bantoetaalfamilie sy verskyning maak. Derhalwe kan die oorsprong van die onveranderlike refleksiefprefiks in Zulu moontlik verduidelik word teen die agtergrond van 'n kontinuum wat die onderskeie oppervlakterealiserings van die refleksief in ander Bantoetale verteenwoordig. en
dc.language.iso en en
dc.publisher African Language Association of Southern Africa en
dc.subject Zulu,language typology,diminutive,relative suffix,object agreement,reflexive prefix,semantic bleaching en
dc.title The value of typology in solving certain Zulu linguistic issues en
dc.type Article en


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