Aspects of Bambara Syntax |
Common terms and phrases
adjunctive adjectives adjunctive relative clause adverbial ambiguity analysis appositional relative clause aspect marker Bambara base sentence branching rules cloth Comp complement concrete conjoined cut the tree CV CV daga deep structure definite article deleted derived dummy symbol dvíri Dyula embedded sentence erased example Fall to Ř fini front shifted furu high tone word horse intransitive karan Katz and Postal lexical item low tone word Mande languages Mandekan Maninka marry He married modifiers morpheme mɔgɔ muso muso woman na-ra nominal noun phrase number marker obligatory occur operate optional P-marker permutation phonemic phonological position post-position pot black PT+1 rabbit rewritten Sédu Segou semantic sentence final sentence pitch patterns Seydou shifting rule sigi len stative suffix syntactic categories tága tence tigɛ tive tree the cut tye ye tyɛ verbal Welmers