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We have used several online-resources to annotate Chichewa, here are two of them
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http://www.cambridge.org/aus/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521573788&ss=exc
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One of the challenges when glossing a Bantu language is the annotation of the verb's affixes since aggultination is one of the characteristics
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of Bantu languages so that a verb in Chichewa can be preceded by up tp 4 prefixes and followed by up to 3 suffixes. One way of representing verb affixation is in terms of a verb schema where the verb root is accompanied by slots (SLT) each of which hosts one or several affixes of a specific grammatical type
  
http://www.cnr.berkeley.edu/~alyons/chichewa/
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{| "border="1" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="2"
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|- style=background:#FF8C00; color:#006400
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| (NEG)||SUBJ.AGR|| TA1||(OM)||style="color:red" |ROOT||(DS)||(TA2)||FV
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|-style=background:#FF8C00; color:#00640
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| SLT1||SLT2||SLT3||SLT4||||SLT5||SLT6||SLT7
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|}
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'''MORE SOON'''  :=)

Revision as of 12:29, 4 June 2008

THIS PAGE IS UNDER CONSTRUCTION

One of the challenges when glossing a Bantu language is the annotation of the verb's affixes since aggultination is one of the characteristics of Bantu languages so that a verb in Chichewa can be preceded by up tp 4 prefixes and followed by up to 3 suffixes. One way of representing verb affixation is in terms of a verb schema where the verb root is accompanied by slots (SLT) each of which hosts one or several affixes of a specific grammatical type

(NEG) SUBJ.AGR TA1 (OM) ROOT (DS) (TA2) FV
SLT1 SLT2 SLT3 SLT4 SLT5 SLT6 SLT7

MORE SOON  :=)