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UNINA9910251395103321 |
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Autore |
Persohn Bastian |
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Titolo |
The verb in Nyakyusa : a focus on tense, aspect, and modality / / Bastian Persohn |
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Language Science Press, 2017 |
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Berlin, Germany : , : Language Science Press, , 2017 |
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©2017 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xii, 385 pages) : PDF, digital file(s) |
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Collana |
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Contemporary African linguistics ; ; 2 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Bantu languages - Verb |
Linguistics |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 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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