The Verb in Nyakyusa

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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description 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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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-362992024-11-16T05:28:09Z The Verb in Nyakyusa Persohn, Bastian mbeya region verb tanzania modality aspect tense bantu languages Aguna language Clitic Nyakyusa language Past tense Perfective aspect Simple present Subject (grammar) Subjunctive mood thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics 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. 2021-02-10T12:58:18Z 2018-12-12 10:19:03 2020-04-01T13:15:20Z 2017 book 641705 OCN: 1030820214 2511-7726 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/30849 9783961100156 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/36299 eng Contemporary African Linguistics open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution 4.0 International Attribution 4.0 International Attribution 4.0 International Attribution 4.0 International Attribution 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/30849/1/641705.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/30849/1/641705.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/30849/1/641705.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/30849/1/641705.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/30849/1/641705.pdf Language Science Press 10.5281/zenodo.926408 10.5281/zenodo.926408 ed03121b-b998-4b50-8d58-1d0745565558 Knowledge Unlatched 9783961100156 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) 403 open access
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Aguna language
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Subjunctive mood
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