The Bantu Connective Construction

摘要: The Bantu equivalent of a genitive construction, construction in which nominal constituent modifies another one, is part family constructions commonly called the connective . This paper analyses from perspective inspired by canonical typology. I first define type and subsequently discuss departures this along five dimensions. resulting picture shows functionally extremely versatile grammatical space that lacks clear-cut boundaries between genitives, adjectives relative clauses. Connective are frequent source lexicalisation, grammaticalisation patterns often lead to agreement unusual places.