View source for Classroom:The word KU in Runyankore-Rukiga

This page examines the grammatical function of the word "ku" in Runyankore-Rukiga.
The data is the result of typecraft's phrase search done on March 18, 2011.



KU as a word in Runyankore-Rukiga can work as:

1. A conjunction [[http://typecraft.org/TCEditor/1266/17433/]]

2. A complementizer [[http://typecraft.org/TCEditor/127/853/]]

3. An adverb [[http://typecraft.org/tc2wiki/Special:TypeCraft/Editor/241/2513]]


{| border="2" align="center" style="text-align:center;"
|Function
|NUMBER OF TOKENS
|-
|CONJ
|38
|-
|COMP
|05
|-
|ADV
|02
|}


In Runyankore-Rukiga,the word KU appears in both initial and medial positions of a sentence.

KU- Initial position [[http://typecraft.org/TCEditor/4/18279/]]

KU- Medial position [[http://typecraft.org/TCEditor/1082/12902/]]
 



The word KU can have at least three meanings, they are:

WHEN [[http://typecraft.org/TCEditor/1284/18056/]]

THAT [[http://typecraft.org/TCEditor/1082/12902/]]

IF [[http://typecraft.org/TCEditor/127/853/]]


  
  
The tables that follow show the occurrences found in the 55 annotated phrases of Runyankore-Rukiga:

{| border="1" align="center" style="text-align:center;"
|MEANING
|NUMBER OF TOKENS
|-
|When
|36
|-
|That
|06
|-
|If
|01
|-
|Lack
|12
|}



"Ku meaning WHEN"
{| border="1" align="center" style="text-align:center;"
|POS tag
|NUMBER OF TOKENS
|-
|CONJ
|30
|-
|COMP
|03
|-
|REL
|01
|-
|Lack
|03
|}



"KU meaning THAT"
{| border="1" align="center" style="text-align:center;"
|POS tag
|NUMBER OF TOKENS
|-
|CONJ
|04
|-
|COMP
|01
|-
|ADV
|01
|}



"KU meaning IF"
{| border="1" align="center" style="text-align:center;"
|POS tag
|NUMBER OF TOKENS
|-
|COMP
|01
|}