The temporal role of eastern Bantu -ba and -li

In the eastern Bantu languages forms of the verb 'be', -ba and/or -I i , are commonly employed in complex constructions in which they take sentential{-like) complements. Though often considered to be semantically empty in these constructions, they are analyzed here as shifters, having both...

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Main Author: Robert Botne
Format: article
Language:EN
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Published: LibraryPress@UF 1986
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/2883ceb84b44453c8d4906bea907f822
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