Nurse, Derek
Tense and Aspect in Bantu
representative sample of which is freely available on the publisher's website.
He devotes substantial chapters to the analysis and comparison of the different tense and aspect systems found in Bantu. He also examines the verbal categories with which they interact, including negation and focus. Synchronic and diachronic perspectives are interwoven throughout the book. Following a brief history of Bantu over the last five thousand years, the final two chapters look systematically at the history of tense and aspect in Bantu. The first deals with the reconstruction of the
earlier forms from which contemporary structures, morphemes, and categories are derived, and the second with the processes of change, including grammaticalization, by means of which older analytical structures and independent lexical items moved as they became incorporated as grammatical inflections and
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Keywords: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics LAN009000
- Author(s)
- Nurse, Derek
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Publication year
- 2008
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Category
- Languages
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9780191553608