The Bantu Connective Construction
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چکیده
When two nominal constituents are in a relation of dependency in the Bantu languages, the syntactically dependent constituent is usually introduced by a relator. In Bantu studies this relator is called connective (also associative, genitive or connexive) element (or pronoun, clitic, prefix, marker or particle). The order is HEAD (R1) RELATOR (REL) DEPENDENT (R2). R1 and R2 are short for first and second relatum. Dependency relations are not always unproblematic, as we will see in Section 5.1. The terms relator and relatum are from Dik (1989). I will use the term connective construction to refer to the entire construction, i.e. R1 REL R2, rather than to REL R2, as is sometimes done in the literature. A typical example is provided in (1).
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