--Jacqueline Ofosu-Appiah 13:57, 18 February 2014 (UTC)
Noun Phrase internal agreement
In the example below there is agreement between the noun "ndompe" and the numeral "mmienu". They agree in terms of number.
One might want to say that the numeral is the agreement controller while the noun is the controllee.. The noun initial nasal marks the "dompe" as being plural.
na wakɔfa saa dompe no de ndompe mmienu no adwane.
“he will then grab the other bone and run away with two bones”
Clause linkage
in the text below there are two clauses, in which one of the two clauses constituting the complex clause contains
a complement conjunction. this clause containing the complement conjunction is the complement clause and it comes after the main clause.The complement conjunction is "sɛ" and the main verb is "yɛ".
in the text below the complement clause is "sɛ ɔpɛ saa dompe no nso" and the main clause is "ɔkraman nibrefo yi yɛɛ nadwen"
ɔkraman nibrefo yi yɛɛ nadwen sɛ ɔpɛ saa dompe no nso.
“the greedy dog decided he wanted that bone too”
| nibrefo |
| nibre | fo |
| greedyNMLZAGT | |
| N |
--Jacqueline Ofosu-Appiah 22:22, 5 March 2014 (UTC)
Linguistic phenomenon
one phenomenon i realised during my texts annotation and which is also relevant in my language is the use of "a" a perfect tense marker.
There are two a-prefixes for verbs, one occurs in purpose clauses and in SVCs. The derived verbs are sometimes called a-form verbs and Akan scholars do not always agree on the nature of a-form verbs.
Some say it is a finite verb marked for aspect, others say it is a infinite verb form.
The other a-prefix is normally classified as a perfective (PFV) verb form (sometimes called an Aorist). The latter seems to be what you are illustrating.
--Dorothee Beermann 12:08, 25 March 2014 (UTC)
during my annotations i used a lot of the perfect tense marker "a" and the reason is that it was a film narration so everything i talked about had happened already. Below are sentences to illustrate this phenomenon.
Agyinamoa no ahu hwansena no.
“the cat has seen the fly”
| agyinamoa |
| agyinamoa |
| 3SGSBJ |
| N |
| Hwansena |
| hwansena |
| fly3SGOBJ |
| N |
hwansena no akɔ si papa no atifi.
“the fly has gone to sit on top of the man's head”
| hwansena |
| hwansena |
| 3SGSBJ |
| N |
agyinamoa no akye hwansena no.
“the cat has caught the fly”
| agyinamoa |
| agyinamoa |
| 3SGSBJ |
| N |
| Hwansena |
| hwansena |
| fly3SGOBJ |
| N |
if u want more examples click on the link below
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