The Verb in Nyakyusa (Second edition) : A focus on tense, aspect, and modality

• Tác giả: Bastian Persohn
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Thông tin xuất bản: Berlin, Germany : Language Science Press, 2020
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 217485
• Chủ đề: 1. Biography: general; 2. linguistics

Tóm tắt

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.