The verb in Nyakyusa a focus on tense, aspect, and modality

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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Persohn, Bastian, author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin, Germany : Language Science Press 2017
2017.
Colección:Contemporary African linguistics ; 2.
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009421034706719
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Sumario: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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xii, 385 pages) : PDF, digital file(s)
Also available in print form
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
ISBN:9783961100156