Tense, Aspect, Modality and Negation in Kinyakyusa
Amani Lusekelo
Broschiertes Buch

Tense, Aspect, Modality and Negation in Kinyakyusa

A Bantu Language of Tanzania and Malawi

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This book offers a detailed description of the Bantu language Kinyakyusa, spoken in Tanzania and Malawi, focusing on two major inflectional categories, namely tense-aspect-modality (TAM) and negation (NEG). Although this book provides the descriptions of the various formatives for TAM and NEG in the language, some comparative data, mainly from Eastern Bantu, have also been offered. The TAM system is analysed with respect to semantic classifications of verbs. Also, the book presents the theoretical orientations which govern TAM analyses in Bantu family: Reichenbach s linear model, Guillaumean s...