A Relational Grammar of Kinyarwanda

a-ra-andik-a a-ra-shaak-a aara abaana abaantu Abagabo akazi amafaraanga amashusho Bantu languages benefactive blackboard causativization chair chalk Chapter child chomeurs class marker cleft cliticized complement Constraints construction dative dative shift deleted demoted derived direct object embedded sentence girl The boy Givón grammatical relation head noun I-pst-see-asp íbárúwa ibíryo igitabo íkárámu imibare inalienable possessions incorporated pronouns indirect inyama inzu it-pres-be jects John Kabgayi Keenan Kimenyi Kinyarwanda kwaa locative NP main verb manner NP Mariya Mary math matrix sentence meat morpheme n'ííkárámu n'umugabo n'umugore non-terms objectivized oblique case NPs oblique NPs passivization perfective aspect POSS possessive possessor NP preposition promotion pronoun incorporation properties pseudo-clefting racyaa read the books reflexivization Relational Annihilation Law Relational Grammar relative clauses relativization semantic she-pres-write-asp stativization subjunctive mood syntactic teacher tense transformations Umugabo Umugore Umuhuungu umukoobwa Umwaalimu umwaana undergo verb stem vowel wh-question writing a letter y-a-boon-ye Yohaani