The Verb in Nyakyusa

By Bastian Persohn

Book Overview

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.

This work was published by Saint Philip Street Press pursuant to a Creative Commons license permitting commercial use. All rights not granted by the work's license are retained by the author or authors.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1013289722
• ISBN13: 9781013289729
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: Saint Philip Street Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 2.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.5" x 11.0"