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Talk:Noun Phrases in Runyankore-Rukiga

Thank you for your article about Bantu noun phrases specifically on RR NP.Its good you highlighted some dependant elements which modify RR nouns as seen on your example http://typecraft.org/tc2wiki/Special:TypeCraft/Editor/1078/12866.

Enkyende emwe mpango erikwiragura eriya
“That one big monkey which is black”
Enkyende
enkyende
IV9monkey
N
emwe
emwe
9one
QUANT
mpango
npango
9big
ADJ
erikwiragura
erikuiragura
9RELINFblackFV
ADJ
eriya
eriya
9thatPART
DEM

As you continue to develop the article with your focus of finding out the elements which modify the RR noun,or even the RR NP itself,can you consider;

1.The three components of Noun and NP modification as advocated by Sidney Greenbaum& Randolph Quick(2007:363)A Student's Grammar of the English Language.These include; The head,The premodification and The postmodification.

2.In line to the above, i think it is also important to have examples of both simple RR NP like and complex RR NPS like ,as we compare their elements and even see how far the RR NP can stretch them.