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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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Berlin, Germany :
Language Science Press
2017
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| Series: | Contemporary African linguistics ;
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009421034706719 |
| 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) : PDF, digital file(s) Also available in print form |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9783961100156 |
