Overview
In this paper I have analysed the internal structure of the verb in Lingala which is a Bantu Language spoken in both Congo and Angola. Being an agglutinative language, Lingala verb unit is a concatenation of many elements glued to the verb root, including subject, tense and aspect, polarity, etc. As a contribution to morphological valence changing, I have developed the N-Tier Structure (NTS) theory. It is an "all-in-one" tree structure with distinct layers displaying syntactic, morphological, lexical and sometimes phonological information of sentences before and after the valence alteration.
- | Author: Rufin Batota-Mpeho
- | Publisher: Lulu.com
- | Publication Date: Dec 06, 2012
- | Number of Pages: 104 pages
- | Binding: Paperback or Softback
- | ISBN-10: 1291236171
- | ISBN-13: 9781291236170
