The Verb in Nyakyusa (Second edition) : : A focus on tense, aspect, and modality / / Bastian Persohn.
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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Superior document: | Contemporary African Linguistics |
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Place / Publishing House: | [s.l.] : : Language Science Press,, 2020. |
Year of Publication: | 2020 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Contemporary African Linguistics
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (405 p.) |
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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. |
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ISBN: | 3961102945 |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Bastian Persohn. |