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Talk:Noun Phrases in Runyankore-Rukiga

Thank you for your article about Bantu noun phrases especially as you specifically focus on RR NP.Its good you highlighted some dependant elements which modify RR nouns as seen on your example;tp://typecraft.org/TCEditor/1078/12865/


Enkyende emwe mpango erikwiragura eriya
“That one big monkey which is black”
Enkyende
enkyende
IV9monkey
N
emwe
emwe
9one
QUANT
mpango
npango
9big
ADJ
erikwiragura
erikuiragura
9RELINFblackFV
ADJ
eriya
eriya
9thatPART
DEM

As you continue to develop the article with your focus of finding out the elements which modify the RR noun,or even the RR NP itself,can you consider;

1.The three components of Noun and NP modification as advocated by Greenbaum.S& Quick.R's [1] (2007).These include; a) The head, b) The premodification c) The postmodification.

2.In line to the above, i think it is also important to have examples of both simple RR NP like
Enkyende emwe
“One monkey”
Enkyende
enkyende
IV9monkey
N
emwe
emwe
9one
QUANT
and complex RR NPS like
Enkyende emwe mpango eriya hari erikwiragura munonga niyo egyo ei
“That one big monkey over there, which is very black is the real one which”
Enkyende
enkyende
IV9monkey
N
emwe
emwe
9one
QUANT
mpango
npango
9big
ADJ
eriya
eriya
9thatPART
DEM
hari
hari
 
 
erikwiragura
erikuiragura
9RELINFblackFV
ADJ
munonga
munonga
very
ADJ
niyo
niyo
REL9
REL
egyo
egyo
9that
DET
ei
ei
9which
REL
. or
omukazi muraingwa ogwo oyemereire omushonda y'enju owaanyiiga ahabwokuba waasheka n'omwishiki muhango mugufu oshutami aha kitebe ekyo ekikuzire
“That tall woman standing in the corner of the house who has become angry because you have laughed with the short big girl seated on that old stool”
omukazi
omukazi
IV1woman
N
muraingwa
muraingwa
1tall
ADJ
ogwo
ogwo
IV1AGRthatMEDIAL
DEM
oyemereire
oyemereire
2SGstandPROG
V
omu
omu
 
PREP
nshonda
nshonda
9corner
N
ya
ya
 
PNposs
enju
enju
IV9house
N
owaanyiiga
owaanyiiga
whoRELPASTimbecome-angryIND
REL
ahabwokuba
ahabwokuba
because
CONJ
waasheka
waasheka
2SGPASTimlaughIND
V
na
na
 
CONJ
omwishiki
omuishiki
IV1girl
N
muhango
muhango
1big
ADJ
mugufu
mugufu
1short
ADJ
oshutami
oshutami
2SGsit 
V
aha
aha
on
PREP
kitebe
kitebe
7stool
N
ekyo
ekio
IV7that
DEM
ekikuzire
ekikuzire
73SGoldSTAT
V

The above can help us to compare their elements and even see how far the RR NP can stretch.

on semantic implications

As you go on to find the possible semantic implications of shifting positions of elements within RR NP, bear in mind that some NP may involve incompatible semantic features, therefore this is likely to limit the supposedly multiple meaning a NP may attract. Rugemalira J. M. (2007), has it that Semantic considerations may indicate that two elements cannot co-occur. According to Rugemalira J. M.[2](2007:325),because of semantic restrictions on the co-occurrence of the elements of the noun phrase, it is reasonable to argue that it is not possible to expand the phrase indefinitely since the restrictions have a cumulative effect



References

  1. Greenbaum.S& Quick.R.(2007:363) A Student's Grammar of the English Language.Longman,England.
  2. Rugemalira J. M.(2007)The Structure of the Bantu Noun Phrase University of Dar es Salaam, http://www.soas.ac.uk/linguistics/research/workingpapers/volume-15/file37804.pdf /