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The Verb in Nyakyusa : A focus on tense, aspect, and modality
Title:
The Verb in Nyakyusa : A focus on tense, aspect, and modality
Author:
Persohn, Bastian
ISBN:
zenodo.926408

9783961100156
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Publication Information:
Language Science Press 2017
Physical Description:
1 electronic resource (403 p.)
Abstract:
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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