The Structure of a Noun Phrase in Ezha, Ethio-Semitic

• 作者: Endalew Assefa
• 来源期刊: Macrolinguistics
• 学科: 社会科学
• 关键词: NOUN PHRASE Ezha HEAD DEPENDENT MODIFIER COMPLEMENT
• 年，卷（期）: 2016,（2）
• 页码范围: 54-64
• 页数: 11页
• 分类号: G

摘要

This article is meant to provide a descriptive account of a noun phrase in the Ezha language. By so doing, no particular theoretical assumption is adhered to; the data analysis is dictated by a purely descriptive perspective. Data for the study were accessed by consulting native speakers through elicitation augmented by recording of spontaneous speech. A noun phrase in Ezha is found out to be built out of a head noun alone or a head noun together with (a) dependent(s). In situations where a noun phrase is made up of a head noun along with dependents, the dependents can be a noun, an adjective, a numeral, a demonstrative and/or a relative clause. The phrase is always head-final.