Merger of noun classes 3 and 1: A case study with bilingual isiXhosa-speaking youthTo what extent do official and non-official signs in Cape Town reflect a multilingual society in which all languages are declared equal? What are the languages and the varieties of language used in official ...
A synchronic survey of Xhosa nominal class prefixes, viz. 1 and 3, on the one hand, and 4 and 6 on the other; shows an interesting variation. In classes 1 and 3 the bilabial nasal of the prefix is devoid of the prefixal vowel and is syllabic while, on the other hand the same ...
A synchronic survey of Xhosa nominal class prefixes, viz. 1 and 3, on the one hand, and 4 and 6 on the other; shows an interesting variation. In classes 1 and 3 the bilabial nasal of the prefix is devoid of the prefixal vowel and is syllabic while, on the other hand the same ...
While a number of phonologists assume that phonotactics can provide clues to abstract morphological information, this possibility has largely gone unconsidered in work on Bantu noun classes. We present experimental evidence from isiXhosa (a Bantu language of the Nguni family, from South Africa), ...
classesLexicalizationNounphrasestructureThis article shows that once it is accepted that a single morpheme can lexicalize a "span" of heads rather than a single head, it becomes possible to establish the complex structures underlying noun class prefixes and agreement markers in Nguni (Xhosa, Zulu,...
Noun classesLexicalizationNoun phrase structureThis article shows that once it is accepted that a single morpheme can lexicalize a "span" of heads rather than a single head, it becomes possible to establish the complex structures underlying noun class prefixes and agreement markers in Nguni (Xhosa...
While there has been research on the partial or complete merger of Noun Classes 5 and 11 in a number of Bantu languages, no study has focused specifically on the acquisition of Cl. 11 by Xhosa-speaking children. In this paper we test our hypothesis that Xhosa-speaking children in both ...