Difference between revisions of "Talk:Annotating Konkomba"

Latest revision as of 20:25, 16 December 2009

On negative marking in Konkomba

Is there a grammatical term for a lexical entry made up of two different parts of speech fused together? Could we call it a 'negative conjunction', or is there a more technical term?

I would suggest to annotate kaa and baa as follows:

At the point were TypeCraft will allow to record base forms of words and morphemes it will also be possible to add that k has the base form ki and b has the base form bi.

--Dorothee 18:06, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

Negative Marking in Runyankore-Rukiga

Runyankore-Rukiga is a Bantu languages spoken in Uganda. The negative particle is ti. This prefix can occur attached to a pronoun which agrees anaphorically or cataphorically with a noun to express negation of noun phrases:

sry, I would have to look up the noun class for flower in the example above :(, but the interesting point here is that we see the fusion of negation and a pronominal element. The function of this grammatical unit in RR is not to express pronoun negation, that is 'not-them', but rather to mediate nominal negation for a nominal that they 'phorically' relate to. --Dorothee 18:20, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

As for the glossing of baa, Mary writes:

Actually the *baa* 'they-not' should have had a 'did' in the middle of the English gloss, as it means 'they-(did)-not' (go) etc., likewise the other negative pronouns.

So, also for Konkomba baa, the meaning is not 'not-them', but rather something looking similar to the meaning suggested in the gloss for the Runyankore-Rukiga form.

--Lars Hellan 20:25, 16 December 2009 (UTC)