The Verb in Nyakyusa (Second edition) : A focus on tense, aspect, and modality

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Persohn, Bastian [VerfasserIn]

Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: English Series: Contemporary African LinguisticsPublisher: [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : Language Science Press, 2020Description: 1 Online-RessourceISBN:

9783961102945

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496.39 23/eng/20230207

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PL8025.1

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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 discoursePPN: PPN: 177844881XPackage identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-94-OAB

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