Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of MASTERS OF ARTS
in the DEPARTMENT OF AFRICAN LANGUAGES at the
UNIVERSITY OF ZULULAND, 2000. / Topics falling under evaluative morphology have been wrongly placed in most
grammar books dealing with African languages. cf. Doke (1956), Ziervogel
and Mabuza (1996) and Nyembezi (1965) have placed diminutives ,
augmentatives and reduplication of nominal stems under derivative forms of
the nouns. They also place the evaluative verbal extensions under verbal
derivatives. This situation has led to inadequate and misleading treatment of .
such topics. Most scholars have treated these topics in passing. Less attention
has been paid to this aspect of Zulu grammar. This study endeavours to
highlight important aspects of evaluative morphology.
We want to ascertain whether or not the branch of morphology known as
evaluative morphology is worth pursuing in Zulu. We shall therefore develop
a theoretical basis for Zulu evaluative morphology.
This study will attempt to deal with some important aspects of evaluative
morphology. These aspects are :evaluative affixes used with nominals,
evaluative affixes used with personal names and evaluative affixes used with
the verb. Non-evaluative affixes will be excluded from this study.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:uzulu/oai:uzspace.unizulu.ac.za:10530/647 |
| Date | January 2000 |
| Creators | Madondo, Louis Musawenkosi Muziwenhlanhla S'Nothi |
| Contributors | Hlongwane, J.B. |
| Source Sets | South African National ETD Portal |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
| Format | application/pdf |
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