The Verb in Nyakyusa - Softcover

Persohn, Bastian

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1013289722 ISBN 13: 9781013289729

Publisher: Saint Philip Street Press, 2020

Synopsis

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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Edition details

• Publisher: Saint Philip Street Press
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1013289722
• ISBN 13: 9781013289729
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 400