The compound noun in Northern Sotho

[摘要] ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study explores the various elements which appear in compound nouns in NorthernSotho. The purpose of this study fill in an important gap in the Northern Sotholanguage studies as regards the morphological structure of compound nouns inNorthern Sotho.This study is organized as follows:CHAPTER ONE presents an introduction to the study. The introductory sections whichappear in this chapter include the aim of the study, the methodology and different viewsof researchers of other languages on compound nouns. Different categories whichappear with the noun in the Northern Sotho compound are identified.CHAPTER TWO deals with the different features of the noun in Northern Sotho. Itexamines the various class prefixes, nominal stems/roots and nominal suffixes whichform nouns. Nouns appear in classes according to the form of their prefixes. Themorphological structures of the nouns have been presented. It also reviews themeanings, sound/phonological changes and origins of nouns.CHAPTER THREE is concerned with the nominal heads of compound nouns. Itexamines compounds that are formed through a combination of nouns, and compoundsthat are formed from nouns together with other syntactic categories. Arguments whichdefend the structure of different compounds with nominal heads are presented.CHAPTER FOUR explores compound nouns with verbal heads. It examines variouselements of compound nouns with a verb as one of its components. The entire chapterincludes examples that illustrate that when a verbal form appears with a noun, it isadapted to a noun by the addition of the relevant prefixes and suffixes. CHAPTER FIVE gives an overview of the findings, and presents the conclusions, of theresearch on compound nouns in Chapters Three and Four.

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