Komposita in Noord-Sotho

[摘要] The object of this research was to study the compounds of Northern Sotho.In Chapter 1 the problem, aims and the method were establishedIn Chapter 2 a survey of the general bibliography on the subject was given.This study is mainly structural of nature, but preliminary remarks about theT.G.G. on the subject were also taken into account. A broad discussion anthe structural view was given In terms of General Linguistics as applied tothe African languages.In Chapter 3 language structure and language system was discussed in orderto establish a framework wherein the compound could be studied accordingto the different language disciplines.In Chapter 4 the position of the compound in relation to the other languagesymbols were established by applying the different word tests of Van Wyk.After it was established that the compound is a word, the linguistic disciplinesfor example morphology, syntax, semantics and phonology, were appalled inorder to describe the compound scientifically.In Chapter 5 the compound was studied morphologically. Its differentmorphemes were identified. This was followed by describing the syntacticstructures o f the compound. It was established that the underlying structureof the compound is a word group.In this process it was found that the syntactic processes, for example reductionand substitution played a major role In the establishment of thecompound.In Chapter 6 the semantics of the compound was studied. Paradigmatic andsyntagmatic semantic characteristics of the compound in Northern Sotho wereidentified. It was established that the paradigmatic semantic characteristicsof word correlates are inhibited by the syntagmatic relation in order to bringabout an unambiguous interpretation. The metaphor was found t o be evenmore profound in compounds than in non-compounded words.In Chapter 7 the phonological aspects of the compound were discussed. Itwas discovered that occlusivation played a major role in the establishment ofthe compound.In Chapter 8 the statistics of 2472 compounds which were compiled in theappendix, were given. It was found that the noun and the verb stem werethe most productive components in the formation of compounds.A summary and conclusions were given in Chapter 9. The conclusion wasreached that the compound certainly has a place in the language system andthat it belongs to the sub-system of the word on grounds of its morphological,syntactic, semantic and phonological characteristics.

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