The Verb in Nyakyusa (Second edition) : A focus on tense, aspect, and modality
Persohn, Bastian
The Verb in Nyakyusa (Second edition) : A focus on tense, aspect, and modality - Language Science Press 2020
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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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The Verb in Nyakyusa (Second edition) : A focus on tense, aspect, and modality - Language Science Press 2020
Open Access
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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English
/doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4287412
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4287412 doi
linguistics
Biography: general
Language Arts & Disciplines Linguistics Biography & Autobiography