Abstract

This article presents an overview of the Dawida noun class system, which consists of 15 classes and 4 subclasses. Each of the 15 main classes is a set of nouns that take the same nominal prefix and have common agreement paradigms. Subclasses trigger the same agreement as the main classes they refer to, but have different nominal prefixes. The opposition between singularity and plurality in Dawida only occurs in the system of noun classes. Among 11 attested class correlations between singular and plural nouns, 9 correlations are the most widespread Bantu number pairings or so-called genders. From a syntactic point of view, two types of agreement exist in the language: (a) agreement of modifiers with the head noun of the noun phrase, and (b) agreement of verb forms with the subject/object noun phrase. Morphologically, the noun prefixes and 5 series of dependent prefixes are distinguished.

摘要

本文概述了 Dawida 名词类系统，该系统由 15 个类和 4 个子类组成。15 个主要类别中的每一个都是一组名词，它们采用相同的名词前缀并具有共同的协议范式。子类触发与它们引用的主类相同的协议，但具有不同的名义前缀。达维达中的单数与复数的对立只出现在名词类系统中。在单数和复数名词之间的 11 个已证实的类相关性中，9 个相关性是最普遍的班图数对或所谓的性别。从句法的角度来看，语言中存在两种类型的一致性：（a）修饰语与名词短语的头部名词一致，以及（b）动词形式与主/宾名词短语的一致性。形态学上，