Classes in Kiswahili: a study of their forms and implications
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| adam_text | Classes in Kiswahili
A Study of their Forms and Implications
Assibi A Amidu
RUDIGER KOPPE VERLAG • KOLN
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface and acknowledgements page xi
Tables xiii
Abbreviations and symbols xiv
CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION 1
1 0 Aims and objectives I
1 1 Approaches to classes, classifications, and descriptions 2
2 Traditional hypothesis as background to the study 3
2 1 Kiswahili traditional classes 6
211A list of traditional Kiswahili class classification 6
3 A table of Kiswahili classes 11
4 A note on tables of classes 12
S A synopsis of the essentials of a linguistic empirical
grammar 20
5 1 LEG: A principle, not a model 20
5 2 The mirror image convention 26
CHAPTER 2 MATRIX FRAMEWORKS AND CLASS PROJECTION 28
Prolegomena 28
2 0 The framework for class classification and description 28
21A descriptive index system of classification 28
211 Class projection and syntactic structure 31
2 2 Selection of class marker 39
2 3 On defining TLV classes 41
2 4 Barrier to interchangeability of classes 43
2 5 Class classifier: a higher abstraction of the phonology 43
2 6 Conclusion 49
CHAPTER 3 PARADOXES IN KISWAHILI CLASS SYSTEMS 50
Prolegomena 50
3 0 Class paradoxes (I): Animacy, membership, and fossilization 50
3 1 The non-fit hypothesis 60
3 2 Class paradoxes (II): Quantitative vrs qualitative classes 66
321 The quantitative classes of Hurskainen (1992; 1994) 67
3 3 Probabilistic laws, class descriptions and classifications 69
3 4 From quantitative to qualitative descriptions of classes 70
3 5 Conclusion 74
vn
CHAPTER 4 IDENTICALS IN CLASS CLASSIFICATIONS AND
DESCRIPTIONS 75
Prolegomena 75
4 0 On the discernibility of identicals 75
4 1 Identity and diversity: on resolving a riddle 77
4 2 The problem of classes 11 and 14 in Kiswahili 79
4 3 Three anomalies in traditional descriptions of classes 11 and 14 83
431 The diachronic hypothesis of class mergers 83
432 The problem of semantic diversity and phonemic identity 88
433 The problem of phonemic diversity and referential identity 94
4 4 Conclusion 104
CHAPTER 5 THE TYPOLOGICAL STRUCTURE OF KISWAHILI CLASSES 106
Prolegomena 106
5 0 Class: a system of genetic coding 106
5 1 Five levels of class description and classification 107
5 2 Level 1: the significant phonic features of Kiswahili classes 108
5 3 Level 2: phonic classes and threshold limit values (TLV) 109
5 4 Level 3: Two approaches to class analysis in Bantu and linguistics 110
541 The space-time hypothesis of classes 111
542 The sociocentric hypothesis of classes 113
5 5 Level 4: grammatical number: singular, plural, et alia 118
551 Number versus nonnumber 125
5 6 The axiom of absolute negation 127
561 The typological perspective of the axiom of absolute negation 135
562 Central as a typology of number markedness 136
563 Problems of central as a typology of number markedness 138
564 Auxiliary problems: central as a typology of number 140
5 7 The indelibility of the paradox 142
5 8 Level 5: lexical expansion and lexical engineering 144
581 On lexical structure engineering in Bantu 145
5811 On degrammaticalization and finished state constructions 146
5 9 Conclusion 151
CHAPTER 6 THE CLASS PROBLEM OF GENDERS: A CRITIQUE OF
NOUN GENDER SYSTEMS 152
6 0 Introduction 152
6 1 The tangled nest of the Greenbergian beard 153
6 2 Further problems about agreement and classification 160
63* Agreement classes and noun class homonymy 164
6 4 Lexids or roots, stems, and genderhood 165
6 5 The problem of superclasses 169
651 The myth of gender numbers 174
6 6 The problem of inflections and genders 178
661 Multiple gender systems and gender system reduction 180
6 7 Conclusion: Bantu classes are genetic classes 185
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CHAPTER 7 MORPHOLOGICAL AND SEMANTICAL PROBLEMS OF
NOUN CLASS SYSTEMS 191
Prolegomena 191
7 0 Introduction 191
7 1 The semantic hypotheses of classes: the indeterminacy
of the semantic-morphological interface 192
7 2 The dualistic paradoxes of taxonomy 195
721 Further problems in the dualistic paradox 197
7 3 Neutralization in noun class systems 207
731 In defence of TLV genetic classes 210
7 4 The limitations of semantic conceptions: the Dixon-Lakoff
hypothesis 213
7 5 The failure of the animacy criterion in Bantu classes 216
751 Inanimacy in classes 1 MU, and 2 WA 216
752 Further inanimacy in classes 1 and 2 222
753 Inanimacy straining into classes 1 and 2 223
754 Homophony-homonymy interface and animacy 226
7 6 Typological constraint rules in class languages 228
7 7 Conclusion 232
CHAPTER 8 CLASSES, LEXICAL COHESION AND ARGUMENTHOOD 234
8 0 Introduction 234
81A prolegomena to the myth of the infinitive class and it s
implications 234
811 Further tests of nounhood and predicatehood 244
8 2 From allonominal concords to infinitive affix 249
The principle of affix conversion 251
1 Class 15 allonominal concord KU- 251
2 Negative inflections and allonominality 260
3 Negation and allonominality 261
8214 Imperatives and allonominality 266
822 The allonominal concord I-derived from class 9 NI, 267
8221 Examples of non-allonominal constructions 268
8222 Examples of allonominal constructions 269
8 3 Predication-sentences, class 15 allonominal concord KU- and
nominization 272
831 Kiswahili predicational argument MPs: evidence of the myth 273
832 Use of allonominal concord allomorphs in predicates with KU-
class arguments 276
833 Other allonominal concord allomorphs in predicates of class 15 283
8 4 Conversion, reification and the myth of the infinitive class 287
8 5 Typological distinctions in Kiswahili Bantu classes 293
851 The typology of nounhood and predicatehood in classes 293
852 The typology of lexicality and lexical cohesion in classes 297
8521 Lexicality and lexicalhood in classes 299
8522 Opaque nouns 301
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8523 Transparent nouns 301
8524 Interpreting the structure of nouns 302
8 6 Autonomy of function principle, principle of independent targeting,
degrammaticalization and the finished state hypothesis 304
861 Alternative concords, and the CP versus IP and double subjects 310
8 7 Conclusion 323
CHAPTER 9 ALLONOMINALITY, NUMBER, AND NP COORDINATION
IN KISWAHILI CLASSES 325
9 0 Introduction 325
901 Scope of investigation 327
9 1 Locative allonominal affixes and their implications 328
911 Some implications of allonominal concord marking 334
9 2 Cohabitation between class affixes and number implying affixes
or lexids 336
921 Morphological plural pronoun marker -INI 337
922 Cohabitation of class affixes and possessive pronoun-adjective
lexids 343
9221 Lexicality predicational NP, and government in the possessive
pronoun-adjective 348
9222 Lexicality, government, and number in the possessive
pronoun-adjective 358
923 Cohabitation of class affixes and numerative modifier lexids 361
9 3 Prefix, suffix and logically generated concord marking in
Kiswahili coordinates 370
9 4 Coordinate sets, hypernyms and concords in predicates 372
941 Appositive allonominal coordination 372
9 5 Comitative allonominal coordination 380
9 6 Articular allonominal coordination 382
9 7 Data on coordinate strategies in Kiswahili 384
971 Type A (appositive) coordination 384
972 Type B (comitative) coordination 389
9721 Prefix-like generating concord strategy 389
9722 Suffix-like generating concord strategy 394
973 Type C (articular) coordination 401
9731 Coordination involving lexical items sensitive to enumeration or
countability 402
9732 Coordination involving lexical items insensitive to enumeration or
countability 405
98* Conclusion 411
Glossary 414
Bibliography 422
Index 434
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