Noun Phrase Constructions in Nubian Languages: A Comparative Study
Noun Phrase Constructions in Nubian Languages: A Comparative Study
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努比亚语言中的名词短语结构：比较研究
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10.5070/d61110013
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2014
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Suzan Alamin
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Suzan Alamin
大多数努比亚语言的历史比较研究都涉及语音对应和词汇相似性，以重建原始努比亚语音系统和词汇，原始努比亚被认为是努比亚语言的祖先本文试图重构原努比亚语的名词短语。根据佩恩的说法，“名词短语通常被认为是最少由名词首名词和任意数量的名词短语修饰语组成的”，如形容词、数词、量词、限定词、所有格形容词、属格和/或关系从句。（注意，本研究不包括关系从句）。本研究对努比亚语中的名词短语进行了调查，即找出哪些元素可以修饰名词短语，以及这些修饰词如何在名词短语（以下简称np）中分布。名词和修饰语之间的数字一致性也要考虑。本文的最终目的是通过对努比亚诸种现代语言中np的组成顺序的比较，推断出原努比亚np的组成顺序是什么样的。本文的结构如下：第2节简要介绍了努比亚语分类的背景、数据来源、研究目的和数据分析方法。此外，还介绍了现代努比亚语的一些类型学特征。第3节描述了nps的内部结构，包括由人称代词、限定词或量词表示的nps和nps
Most of historical-comparative studies of Nubian languages deal with sound correspondences and lexical similarities in order to reconstruct the Proto-Nubian sound system and lexicon, Proto-Nubian being the assumed ancestor of the Nubian languages.1 The present paper attempts to reconstruct the Proto-Nubian noun phrase. According to Payne, “noun phrases are traditionally thought of as consisting minimally of a head noun, together with any number of noun phrase modifiers”2 such as an adjective, numeral, quantifier, determiner, possessive adjective, genitive, and/or a relative clause. (Note that relative clauses are not included in this study). This study investigates noun phrases in the Nubian languages, that is, to find out which elements may modify noun phrases and how these modifiers are distributed within a noun phrase (hereafter np). Also number agreement between the noun and its modifiers is considered. The ultimate aim is to infer from the comparison of np constituent order in the various modern Nubian languages what the constituent order of the Proto-Nubian np looks like. The paper is structured as follows: Section 2 gives a short background of the Nubian language classification, data sources, the aim of the study, and the method of data analysis. In addition, some typological features of modern Nubian languages are presented. Section 3 describes the internal structure of nps including nps represented by a personal pronoun, determiner, or quantifier, and nps