Marking Of Syntactic Relations In Kunama

The purpose of this thesis is to present a description of the morphosyntacticrnmarking of syntactic relations in Kunama (Shukre). To accomplish thisrnobjective basic techniques of marking syntactic relations like case marking,rnadpositional marking, and constituent order are discussed and applied tornKunama. The study adopts Basic Linguistic Theory as its theoretical frameworkrnand all the descriptions are from the perspective of this theory. In the casernmarking section the study reaches the conclusion that there are two core casesrncalled nominative and objective as well as many peripheral cases. Therncharacteristics of all these cases are discussed in detail. Constituent orderrn(SOV) helps to identify arguments. Finally, the language has also a very richrnsystem of possession-marking constructions.

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