Original Articles

Intransitive verbs in Sesotho

Published in: South African Journal of African Languages
Volume 11 , issue 1 , 1991 , pages: 1–8

DOI: 10.1080/02572117.1991.10586882

Author(s): J.A. du Plessis Department of African Languages, Republic of South Africa

Abstract

Intransitive verbs in Sesotho have been investigated within the Government-Binding theory with special attention to one of its principles, the theta-theory. Intransitive verbs have been manipulated in different sentence structures with special attention to the implications of the grammatical relations subject, object and adjunct. Lastly, existential sentences with ho and weather verbs with ho have been put in a specific structure, according to the principles of the GB-theory.

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