REMARKS ON SOME GRAMMATICAL AND PRAGMATIC FUNCTIONS OF THE OBJECT CONCORD IN NORTHERN SOTHO

Original Articles

REMARKS ON SOME GRAMMATICAL AND PRAGMATIC FUNCTIONS OF THE OBJECT CONCORD IN NORTHERN SOTHO

DOI: 10.1080/02572117.1982.10586484
Author(s): L.J. Louwrens ,

Abstract

Northern Sotho grammarians have until now tacitly assumed that in sentences with a preposed object noun phrase, agreement between such a noun phrase and the verb is compulsory. This viewpoint will be refuted in the following discussion.

Get new issue alerts for South African Journal of African Languages