Noun Modifiers in Igbo
Noun Modifiers in Igbo
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伊博语名词修饰语
DOI：
10.1086/465076
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发表时间：
1969
影响因子：
0.1
通讯作者：
Beatrice F. Welmers
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作者：
W. E. Welmers;Beatrice F. Welmers
0.0.本文的主要目的是定义和描述伊博语中的“形容词”的一个形态学类别。然而，要做到这一点，有必要排除其他可能被建议作为此类成员候选人的名词修饰语。因此，要把形容词作为一个独特的类别，就需要对所有的名词修饰语进行一次调查。0.1.在刚果-刚果语言的文献中，经常有人说，一种特定的语言有“很少的形容词”或“很少的形容词”或“没有形容词作为正式定义的类别”。然而，伊博语的研究，就像许多其他语言的研究一样，在定义名词修饰语的类型方面缺乏精确性。沃德列举了一些词作为“形容词”，这些词的注释只是英语中的形容词;这些词显示了各种各样的语法用法，不能以任何方式根据伊博语结构合理地集中在一起。Green 2显示出更多的谨慎和复杂性，但莫名其妙地遗漏了本研究中被定义为形容词的一半以上的形式，同时包括一些可以更好地被视为其他类别成员的形式（以及两个显然也不是形容词的形式，这些形式在方言中没有记录，
0.0. The primary purpose of this paper is to define and describe a morphological class of 'adjectives' in Igbo. To do so, however, it is necessary to eliminate from consideration other noun modifiers which might be suggested as candidates for membership in such a class. Thus a survey of all noun modifiers is required in order to establish adjectives as a unique class. 0.1. In the literature on Niger-Congo languages, it is frequently said that a particular language has 'very few adjectives' or 'few if any adjectives' or 'no adjectives as a formally defined class'. Yet studies of Igbo, like those of many other languages, have suffered from a lack of precision in defining types of noun modifiers. Ward' lists as 'adjectives' a number of words whose glosses merely happen to be adjectives in English; these words display a variety of grammatical uses, and cannot be lumped together in any way justifiable on the basis of Igbo structure. Green2 shows more caution and sophistication, but unaccountably omits more than half of the forms defined as adjectives in this study, while including some which can better be treated as members of other classes (and two, apparently not adjectives either, which have not been recorded in the dialects with