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Kruijsdijk, Iris (2022)

The Kimbugwe noun class system and its interaction with semantics

Research master thesis | Linguistics (research) (MA)

This thesis aims to describe the noun class system and its interaction with semantics in the Tanzanian Bantu language Kimbugwe (ISO 639-3). This thesis adds to the existing literature on Kimbugwe, but also has typological value, and shows the linguistic diversity of the area the language is spoken in. The main research question of the thesis is; ‘How does the noun class system of Kimbugwe interact with semantics?’. The thesis shows that the noun class system interacts with semantics on a lexical level, through the inherent semantics of the noun classes, on a morphological level, through the derivational semantics of the noun classes, and on a syntactic level, through the semantic agreement of the noun classes.

Bantu

Kimbugwe

noun class system

semantics

Author

Kruijsdijk, Iris

Faculty

Faculty of Humanities

Supervisors

Van der Wal, G.J.

ECTS Credits

30

Language

en