Vol. 7 No. 2 (1998): Nordic Journal of African Studies
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The Problem of Lexical Cohesion and Lexical Structure in Bantu Classes (Part 2)

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  • Assibi Apatewon Amidu
Assibi Apatewon Amidu
Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Nordic Journal of African Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.53228/njas.v7i2.650

Published 1999-12-31

How to Cite

Amidu, A. A. (1999). The Problem of Lexical Cohesion and Lexical Structure in Bantu Classes (Part 2). Nordic Journal of African Studies, 7(2), 22. https://doi.org/10.53228/njas.v7i2.650

Abstract

Bresnan and Mchombo (1995) propose that lexical words may be adequately tested for lexicality, i.e. what they call “lexical integrity”, by means of five tests: extraction, conjoin ability, gapping, inbound anaphoric islands, and phrasal recursivity. The writers claim that, "Alternative concord is in fact a special case of phrasal recursivity, and it makes a compelling case for the syntactic analysis of the noun class markers by showing their lack of lexical integrity." (p. 197)

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