Department of Linguistics and Philology, College of Humanities, Addis Ababa University
Vol.4 No.2 (Serial No.5) 2016
54-64
2016-12-01
This article is meant to provide a descriptive account of a noun phrase in the Ezha language. By so doing, no particular theoretical assumption is adhered to; the data analysis is dictated by a purely descriptive perspective. Data for the study were accessed by consulting native speakers through elicitation augmented by recording of spontaneous speech. A noun phrase in Ezha is found out to be built out of a head noun alone or a head noun together with (a) dependent(s). In situations where a noun phrase is made up of a head noun along with dependents, the dependents can be a noun, an adjective, a numeral, a demonstrative and/or a relative clause. The phrase is always head-final.
noun phrase, Ezha, head, dependent, modifier, complement
doi:10.26478/ja2016.4.5.4
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