A Nominal Morphological Analysis of Kunda

Abstract

This manuscript is an extract of one of the research objectives from my thesis, The Grammatical Sketch of Kunda. It presents a nominal morphological analysis of Kunda, a language spoken in Mambwe district, in the Eastern part of Zambia. The objective of this study was to establish the Nominal morphological system of the language.  The paper investigated a number of linguistic aspects of nominal morphology. Data for this analysis was collected in three chiefdoms of Mambwe district, that is Nsefu, Mnkhanya and Jumbe. Six adult native speakers of Kunda were selected for this study.

The analysis of data shows that Kunda has eighteen noun classes and some noun classes may be involved in the formation of diminutives and augmentatives. Aspects of Kunda noun phrase which includes pronouns, adjectives, demonstratives, possessives, interrogatives and quantifiers were also dealt with in this paper.