Difference between revisions of "Annotating Tumbuka"

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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 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 :=)

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-This is a page under construction.
+'''THIS PAGE IS UNDER CONSTRUCTION'''
-We have used several online-resources to annotate Chichewa, here are two of them
-http://www.cambridge.org/aus/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521573788&ss=exc
+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
-http://www.cnr.berkeley.edu/~alyons/chichewa/
+{| "border="1" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="2"
+|- style=background:#FF8C00; color:#006400
+| (NEG)||SUBJ.AGR|| TA1||(OM)||style="color:red" |ROOT||(DS)||(TA2)||FV
+|-style=background:#FF8C00; color:#00640
+| SLT1||SLT2||SLT3||SLT4||||SLT5||SLT6||SLT7
+|}
+'''MORE SOON'''   :=)