The Verb in Nyakyusa A focus on tense, aspect, and modality

Nyakyusa is an underdescribed Bantu language spoken by around 800.000 speakers in the Mbeya Region of Tanzania. This book provides a detailled description of the verb in this language. The topics covered include the complex morphophonological and morphological processes as well as verb-to-verb deriv...

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מחבר ראשי: Persohn, Bastian (auth)
פורמט: אלקטרוני Book Chapter
שפה:אנגלית
יצא לאור: Language Science Press 2017
סדרה:Contemporary African Linguistics 2
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סיכום:Nyakyusa is an underdescribed Bantu language spoken by around 800.000 speakers in the Mbeya Region of Tanzania. This book provides a detailled description of the verb in this language. The topics covered include the complex morphophonological and morphological processes as well as verb-to-verb derivation, copula verbs and grammaticalized verbs of motion. The main body of the book consists of a detailed description of tense, aspect and modality constructions, which includes not only an in-depth discussion of their sentence level semantics, but also of their patterns of employment in discourse.
תיאור פיזי:1 electronic resource (403 p.)
ISBN:zenodo.926408
9783961100156
גישה:Open Access