SYNTAX OF CHICHEWA.
Series: CAMBRIDGE SYNTAX GUIDES
Publisher: CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS; Cambridge University Press
Published: Nov 08, 2004
Place of publication: CAMBRIDGE
Language: und; eng
Number of pages: 166
Description: The main topics covered in this description of the major syntactic structures of Chichewa, a Bantu language widely spoken in Malawi, include phonetic and phonological aspects of the language, clause structure aspects, and interactions between tone and syntactic structure. Sam Mchombo's analysis is supplemented by observations about how the study of African languages, specifically Bantu languages, has contributed to progress in grammatical theory. The text covers debates about the interaction between syntax and the lexicon, as well as the contributions of African linguistic structure to the evaluation of competing grammatical theories.