Actionality and aspect in Southern Ndebele and Xhosa, two Nguni languages of South Africa
This paper presents some key findings of studies of actionality and the verbal grammar–lexicon interface in two Nguni Bantu languages of South Africa, Xhosa and Southern Ndebele. We describe interactions between grammatical tense marking (and other sentential bounding elements) and lexical verb typ...
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Main Authors: | Thera Marie Crane, Bastian Persohn |
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Format: | article |
Language: | EN FR |
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LibraryPress@UF
2021
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Online Access: | https://doaj.org/article/7ea9a6ac184848139722e9f262d96ec9 |
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