A COMPARISON OF THE INTERACTION OF PRONOMINALS AND WORD ORDER IN NARO AND GǁANA

• Published in: Language matters (Pretoria, South Africa) Vol. 46; no. 2; pp. 222 - 248
• Main Authors: Letsholo, Rose, Saul, Isaac
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Routledge 04.05.2015
• Subjects: focus; nominative case; oblique case of south africa; PGN markers; word order

This article compares PGN markers, the pronoun system and word order in declaratives in Naro ǁGana. These languages are similar in that (a) nouns are marked for person, gender and number; (b) both have complex pronoun systems; (c) the plural and dual categories distinguish inclusive from exclusive p...