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Some Problems of Transitivity in Swahili - Softcover

Whiteley, W. H.

 
9780901877796: Some Problems of Transitivity in Swahili
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0901877794 ISBN 13: 9780901877796
Publisher: Routledge, 2004

Synopsis

First Published in 2004. The following essay is a tentative study of a little explored area of the delicate syntactic properties of transitivity for the language, Swahili. In eastern Africa the role of Swahili is a complicated one: it is spoken as a first language by a relatively small number of people, perhaps a million, living mainly along the East African littoral and on the off-shore islands of Pemba, Zanzibar and Mafia. It is spoken as a second language by a much larger number of people, in excess of ten million, in up-country Tanzania and Kenya, most of whom speak as a first language, a Bantu language more or less closely related to it. It is spoken as a third language by an indeterminate but probably quite large number of people (certainly in excess of a million) in Uganda, the Congo (Kinshasa) Republic and the Nilotic-speaking areas of Kenya.

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About the Author

W.H. Whiteley Professor of Bantu Languages in the University of London

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2004
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0901877794
ISBN 13 
9780901877796
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
124