The Verb In Nyakyusa: A Focus On Tense, Aspect And Modality
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2020-12-20
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Persohn, Bastian
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Nyakyusa is an under described Bantu language spoken by around 800.000 speakers in the Mbeya Region of Tanzania. This book provides a detailed 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. This is the second, slightly revised edition.
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Nyakyusa, Bantu language, Verb