Some Problems of Transitivity in Swahili

1. Auflage 2004
ISBN: 978-0-901877-79-6
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 124 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 202 g

First Published in 2004. The following essay is a tentative study of a little explored area of the delicate syntactic properties of transitivity for the language, Swahili. In eastern Africa the role of Swahili is a complicated one: it is spoken as a first language by a relatively small number of people, perhaps a million, living mainly along the East African littoral and on the off-shore islands of Pemba, Zanzibar and Mafia. It is spoken as a second language by a much larger number of people, in excess of ten million, in up-country Tanzania and Kenya, most of whom speak as a first language, a Bantu language more or less closely related to it. It is spoken as a third language by an indeterminate but probably quite large number of people (certainly in excess of a million) in Uganda, the Congo (Kinshasa) Republic and the Nilotic-speaking areas of Kenya.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Whiteley, W. H.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Grammatik, Syntax, Morphologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface, Introduction, Transitivity and entailment, Deiatiled examonation of verbs and their entailment patterns, Part I Minimal radicals, Part II Extended radicals

Über Autor(innen)

W.H. Whiteley Professor of Bantu Languages in the University of London