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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Persohn, Bastian
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Language Science Press 2017
Series:Contemporary African Linguistics
Subjects:
Modality
Bantu Languages
Perfective Aspect
Verb
Nyakyusa Language
Tanzania
Clitic
Tense
Linguistics
Past Tense
Subjunctive Mood
Mbeya Region
Simple Present
Subject (grammar)
Aguna Language
Aspect
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Collection: OAPEN - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary: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.
Item Description:Creative Commons (cc), https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Physical Description:403 p.
ISBN:9783961100156
zenodo.926408

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