The compound noun in Northern Sotho

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dc.contributor.advisorVisser, M. V.
dc.contributor.authorMphasha, Lekau Eleazaren_ZA
dc.contributor.otherUniversity of Stellenbosch. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Dept. of African Languages.
dc.date.accessioned2008-08-12T10:29:14Zen_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2010-06-01T08:19:06Z
dc.date.available2008-08-12T10:29:14Zen_ZA
dc.date.available2010-06-01T08:19:06Z
dc.date.issued2006-12
dc.descriptionThesis (DLitt (African Languages))--University of Stellenbosch, 2006.
dc.description.abstractENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study explores the various elements which appear in compound nouns in Northern Sotho. The purpose of this study fill in an important gap in the Northern Sotho language studies as regards the morphological structure of compound nouns in Northern Sotho. This study is organized as follows: CHAPTER ONE presents an introduction to the study. The introductory sections which appear in this chapter include the aim of the study, the methodology and different views of researchers of other languages on compound nouns. Different categories which appear with the noun in the Northern Sotho compound are identified. CHAPTER TWO deals with the different features of the noun in Northern Sotho. It examines the various class prefixes, nominal stems/roots and nominal suffixes which form nouns. Nouns appear in classes according to the form of their prefixes. The morphological structures of the nouns have been presented. It also reviews the meanings, sound/phonological changes and origins of nouns. CHAPTER THREE is concerned with the nominal heads of compound nouns. It examines compounds that are formed through a combination of nouns, and compounds that are formed from nouns together with other syntactic categories. Arguments which defend the structure of different compounds with nominal heads are presented. CHAPTER FOUR explores compound nouns with verbal heads. It examines various elements of compound nouns with a verb as one of its components. The entire chapter includes examples that illustrate that when a verbal form appears with a noun, it is adapted to a noun by the addition of the relevant prefixes and suffixes. CHAPTER FIVE gives an overview of the findings, and presents the conclusions, of the research on compound nouns in Chapters Three and Four.en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/1343
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.publisherStellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch
dc.rights.holderUniversity of Stellenbosch
dc.subjectNorthern Sotho language -- Compound wordsen_ZA
dc.subjectNorthern Sotho language -- Nounen_ZA
dc.subjectDissertations -- African languages
dc.subjectTheses -- African languages
dc.titleThe compound noun in Northern Sothoen_ZA
dc.typeThesisen_ZA
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