The Verb in Nyakyusa

The Verb in Nyakyusa
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Publisher : Language Science Press
Total Pages : 405
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ISBN-10 : 9783961102945
ISBN-13 : 3961102945
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Download or read book The Verb in Nyakyusa written by Bastian Persohn and published by Language Science Press. This book was released on 2020 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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