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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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spelling oapen-20.500.12657-469432023-01-31T18:46:04Z The Verb in Nyakyusa (Second edition) Persohn, Bastian Language Arts & Disciplines Linguistics Biography & Autobiography bic Book Industry Communication::C Language::CF linguistics bic Book Industry Communication::B Biography & True Stories::BG Biography: general 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. 2021-02-24T04:32:16Z 2021-02-24T04:32:16Z 2020 book 9783961102945 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/46943 eng application/pdf n/a external_content.pdf Language Science Press Language Science Press https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4287412 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4287412 0bad921f-3055-43b9-a9f1-ea5b2d949173 9783961102945 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) Language Science Press open access
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description 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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