The Verb in Nyakyusa
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| Author | : Bastian Persohn |
| Publisher | : Language Science Press |
| Total Pages | : 405 |
| Release | : |
| ISBN-10 | : 9783961102945 |
| ISBN-13 | : 3961102945 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (45 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis The Verb in Nyakyusa by : Bastian Persohn
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.
