Ebook: Transformational grammar. An analysis of some aspects of Kinandi syntax

Lambert Academic Publishing, 2011. — 82 p. — ISBN 978-3846546567.Kinandi („kutitab Nandi‟ (= the „tongue‟ of the Nandi)) is a dialect of the Kaleenjiin language group who live on the highlands west of the Great Rift Valley of Kenya. They mainly inhabit the counties of Nandi, Uasin Gishu and Trans Nzoia. The latest national census puts the population of the Kaleenjiin as 4,967, 328. Though there are no statistics on the Nandi community itself, it is the second most populous of the Kalenjin communities and therefore could safely be said to currently number over 1.5 million.This book aims to describe some syntactic facts of Kinandi within a generative transformational framework, that is, the Extended Standard Theory. Previous studies and literature of Kinandi was done mainly by missionaries and anthropologists who mainly attempted to write grammars thought to be sufficiently full and detailed for anyone to learn the (Nandi) language adequately (Hollis 1969: xx). These grammars were written without any modern theoretical framework.