The curious case of auxiliary -manya in Lwitaxo
Lwitaxo, one of the Luhya languages of Kenya, has an auxiliary verb of the form -many’a that occurs in compound constructions that express either a generic reading (“normally do V”) or a culminative reading (“ended up V-ing”). This verb is identical in form to the lexical verb -many’a ‘(come to) kno...
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oai:doaj.org-article:d2890357a2b44485a34023f8bef7963f2021-11-19T03:52:44ZThe curious case of auxiliary -manya in Lwitaxo10.32473/sal.v38i2.1072880039-35332154-428Xhttps://doaj.org/article/d2890357a2b44485a34023f8bef7963f2009-06-01T00:00:00Zhttps://journals.flvc.org/sal/article/view/107288https://doaj.org/toc/0039-3533https://doaj.org/toc/2154-428XLwitaxo, one of the Luhya languages of Kenya, has an auxiliary verb of the form -many’a that occurs in compound constructions that express either a generic reading (“normally do V”) or a culminative reading (“ended up V-ing”). This verb is identical in form to the lexical verb -many’a ‘(come to) know’. However, while there are attested cases of KNOW verbs grammaticalizing as habitual/generic auxiliaries, there are no such attestations of KNOW verbs grammaticalizing as indicators of culmination. The author proposes that auxiliary -many’a is the unique result of a convergence of factors—sound change, morphophonological analogy, and semantic reinterpretation—that led an original auxiliary, -mala ‘finish’, to shift in form to resemble lexical -many’a.Robert BotneLibraryPress@UFarticleLwitaxoLuhyaculminativeauxiliarygrammaticalizationPhilology. LinguisticsP1-1091ENFRStudies in African Linguistics, Vol 38, Iss 2 (2009) |
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Lwitaxo, one of the Luhya languages of Kenya, has an auxiliary verb of the form -many’a that occurs in compound constructions that express either a generic reading (“normally do V”) or a culminative reading (“ended up V-ing”). This verb is identical in form to the lexical verb -many’a ‘(come to) know’. However, while there are attested cases of KNOW verbs grammaticalizing as habitual/generic auxiliaries, there are no such attestations of KNOW verbs grammaticalizing as indicators of culmination. The author proposes that auxiliary -many’a is the unique result of a convergence of factors—sound change, morphophonological analogy, and semantic reinterpretation—that led an original auxiliary, -mala ‘finish’, to shift in form to resemble lexical -many’a. |
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