The syntactic structure of the Xhosa "e-" N "-ini" locatives

This article aims at presenting arguments for a new analysis of locative expressions with the prefix e and the suffix -ini in Xhosa. This analysis views the most striking properties of these expressions as syntactic in nature and is based on arguments to the effect that a purely morphological analys...

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Veröffentlicht in:Quaderni di linguistica e studi orientali 2020-09, Vol.6
1. Verfasser: Knut Tarald Taraldsen
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:This article aims at presenting arguments for a new analysis of locative expressions with the prefix e and the suffix -ini in Xhosa. This analysis views the most striking properties of these expressions as syntactic in nature and is based on arguments to the effect that a purely morphological analysis doesn’t provide explanatory accounts of the relevant facts.
ISSN:2421-7220
DOI:10.13128/qulso-2421-7220-9701