The Verb In Nyakyusa - 9783961102952

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.

• | Author: Bastian Persohn
• | Publisher: Language Science Press
• | Publication Date: Dec 07, 2020
• | Number of Pages: 404 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 3961102953
• | ISBN-13: 9783961102952