The Verb in Nyakyusa

A new version of this book is available at https://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/297 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 th...

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Autor principal: Persohn, Bastian
Formato: Libro
Publicado: Language Science Press 2017
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Sumario:A new version of this book is available at https://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/297 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.