Difference between revisions of "Classroom:LING2208 - Annotating Akan"

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--Jacqueline Ofosu-Appiah 13:57, 18 February 2014 (UTC)

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Agreement

with the example below there is an agreement between the Noun "ndompe" and the adjective "mmienu". they agree in terms of number. the adjective is the controller and the noun is the controllee. in Akan there is no inflection that marks number, they are lexically specified for instance "mmienu" is lexically specifed for plural, there is no inflection marker. it is only nouns that has inflections to mark plural

Clause linkage

in the text below there are two clauses, in which one of the two clauses constituting the complex clause contains a subordinative conjunction. this clause containing the subordinative conjunction is the subordinate clause and it comes after the main clause.The subordinative conjunction is "sɛ" and the main verb is "yɛ". in the text above the subordinative clause is "sɛ ɔpɛ saa dompe no nso" and the main clause is "ɔkraman nibrefo yi yɛɛ nadwen" the subordinative conjunction marker is " sɛ"

--Jacqueline Ofosu-Appiah 22:22, 5 March 2014 (UTC)

Linguistic phenomenon

one phenomenon i realised during my texts annotation and which is also relevant in my language is the use of "a" a perfect tense marker. during my annotations i used a lot of the perfect tense marker "a" and the reason is that it was a film narration so everything i talked about had happened already. Below are sentences to illustrate this phenomenon.

if u want more examples click on the link below

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