The verb in Nyakyusa : 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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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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Berlin, Germany :
Language Science Press,
2017.
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| Series: | Contemporary African linguistics ;
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| Online Access: | Access via Directory of Open Access Books |
| 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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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 385 pages). |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9783961100156 3961100152 |