| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 401 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-369) and indexes. |
| Contents |
List of Tables; List of Maps; Notes on Appendices; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Conventions; 1 Introduction; 2 Verb structure and categories in Bantu; 3 Tense; 4 Aspect; 5 Other categories; 6 What can be assumed for Proto-Bantu?; 7 Processes of change; Definitions; Bibliography; Source language reference index; Index. |
| Summary |
Derek Nurse looks at variations in the form and function of tense and aspect in Bantu, a branch of Niger-Congo, the world's largest language phylum. His account is based on data from more than 200 Bantu languages and varieties, a representative sample of which is freely available on the publisher's website. - ;Derek Nurse looks at variations in the form and function of tense and aspect in Bantu, a branch of Niger-Congo, the world's largest language phylum. Bantu languages are spoken in central, eastern, and southern sub-Saharan Africa south of a line between Nigeria and Somalia. By current est. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Bantu languages -- Tense.
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Bantu languages. |
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Bantu languages -- Aspect.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Nurse, Derek. Tense and aspect in Bantu. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008 (DLC) 2008001088 |
| ISBN |
0199239290 (Cloth) |
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9780199239290 (Cloth) |
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0191553603 (electronic book) |
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9780191553608 (electronic book) |
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