A Comparative Study of Swahili ni and Arabic kibza as Copulative Elements  

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Marshad, Hassan A. ; Suleiman, Saleh M.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language Sciences (Full Text) vol. 13 no. 1 (1991), page 21-37.
Fulltext: 13_01_Marshad.pdf (960.62KB)

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K&xi and ni are here treated as linking verbs conjoining subjects to their predicative complements. Their distributional patterns in simple statements, questions and negative sentences are discussed, and in the process, their general properties are compared. Two observations are established. Firstly, the two verbal elements qualify as true copulas; this inference is particularly significant with regard to /c&a as there is a popular opinion contrary to the finding. Secondly, verbless construction in the two languages are the result of a deletion rule. In the case of Arabic, the deletion rule is preceded by another rule - topicalization.

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