The Structure of a Noun Phrase in Ezha, Ethio-Semitic

Macrolinguistics

Endalew Assefa¹ 

[1] Department of Linguistics and Philology, College of Humanities, Addis Ababa University;

关键词: noun phrase;    Ezha;    head;    dependent;    modifier;    complement;   

DOI  :  10.26478/ja2016.4.5.4

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

This article is meant to provide a descriptive account of a noun phrase in the Ezha language. By so doing, no particular theoretical assumption is adhered to; the data analysis is dictated by a purely descriptive perspective. Data for the study were accessed by consulting native speakers through elicitation augmented by recording of spontaneous speech. A noun phrase in Ezha is found out to be built out of a head noun alone or a head noun together with (a) dependent(s). In situations where a noun phrase is made up of a head noun along with dependents, the dependents can be a noun, an adjective, a numeral, a demonstrative and/or a relative clause. The phrase is always head-final.

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