期刊名称：Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies
印刷版ISSN：1607-3614
电子版ISSN：1727-9461
出版年度：2017
卷号：35
期号：2
页码：183-200
DOI：10.2989/16073614.2017.1358097
语种：English
出版社：Taylor & Francis Group
摘要：The isiZulu verb is known for its morphological complexity, which is a subject of on-going linguistics research, as well as for prospects of computational use, such as controlled natural language interfaces, machine translation and spellcheckers. To this end, we seek to answer the question as to what the precise grammar rules for the isiZulu complex verb are (and, by extension, the Bantu verb morphology). To this end, we iteratively specify the grammar as a Context-Free Grammar, and evaluate it computationally. The grammar presented in this paper covers the subject and object concords, negation, present tense, aspect, mood, and the causative, applicative, stative, and the reciprocal verbal extensions, politeness, the wh-question modifiers, and aspect doubling, ensuring their correct order as they appear in verbs. The grammar conforms to specification.
