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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784217303321

Autore

Whiteley Wilfred Howell

Titolo

Some problems of transitivity in Swahili / / W.H. Whiteley

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, , 1968, 1975

ISBN

1-135-46817-6

1-135-46818-4

1-280-15029-7

9786610150298

0-203-98541-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (101 p.)

Disciplina

496.3925

Soggetti

Swahili language - Transitivity

Swahili language - Verbage

Swahili language - Syntax

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Reprinted, with corrections by Dr. Joan Maw, 1975.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical footnotes.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Preface; Introduction; Transitivity and entailment; Detailed examination of verbs and their entailment patterns; Part I- Minimal radicals; Part II- Extended radicals; Introduction; Extensions and transitivity; Conclusions; APPENDIX A List of verbs characteristically associated with Ei; APPENDIX B Incidence of extended forms in texts; APPENDIX C

Sommario/riassunto

During the past two years work has been started on the preparation of a new Swahili dictionary, and while the work is still at an early stage of development it is clear that two particularly difficult problems concern the extent to which lexical material can be systematized, and the manner in which this can best achieved.