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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Materialtyp: | Elektronisk Bokavsnitt |
Språk: | engelska |
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Language Science Press
2017
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Serie: | Contemporary African Linguistics
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Länkar: | OAPEN Library: download the publication OAPEN Library: description of the publication |
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Sammanfattning: | 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. |
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Fysisk beskrivning: | 1 electronic resource (403 p.) |
ISBN: | zenodo.926408 9783961100156 |
Tillgång: | Open Access |