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Talk:Noun Phrases in Runyankore-Rukiga

Thank you for your article about Bantu noun phrases specifically on RR NP.Its good you highlighted some dependant elements which modify RR nouns as seen on your example

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; The head,The premodification and 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

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






References

  1. Greenbaum.S& Quick.R.(2007:363) A Student's Grammar of the English Language.Longman,England.