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"item_title" : "The Syntax of Chichewa",
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Overview
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.
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- ISBN-13: 9780521573788
- ISBN-10: 0521573785
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- Publish Date: October 2004
- Dimensions: 9.28 x 6.36 x 0.61 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.86 pounds
- Page Count: 166
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