Nyakyusa is an underdescribed Bantu language spoken by around 800.000 speakers in the
Mbeya Region of Tanzania. This book provides a detailled description of the verb in this …

Chapter 7 is an overview of the expression of aspect, tense and mood. It describes the
formal means of expressing aspect and tense (aspect is considered more fundamental than …

This paper describes the process of studying the notoriously complex verbal tone systems of
Bantu languages through the systematic elicitation of paradigmatic data. The main thrust of …

This dissertation offers a grammatical description and analysis of Manda (N. 11), a Bantu
language spoken along Lake Nyasa (Lake Malawi) in southern Tanzania. The study focuses …

This article discusses three main phenomena in the morpho-syntax and morpho-phonology
of Bantu languages in which the 1SG object prefix (OP) and/or the reflexive, display …

This article provides an overview of the numerous exceptional morphosyntactic and
phonological properties of the reflexive compared to other object prefixes in Bantu …

It is probably essential for a volume on imperatives and directive strategies to first clarify
what is meant by the two terms. In the literature, they are not always used in the same way …

This dissertation describes and analyses the multiple functions of the reflexive prefix in four
North Eastern Bantu languages, Hehe, Sukuma, Nilamba, and Nyaturu, all spoken in …

Renewal of negation has received ample study in Bantu languages. Still, the relevant
literature does not mention a cross-linguistically recurrent source of standard negation, ie …

This article focuses primarily on the claim in previous research that finiteness asymmetry
occurs less often in imperative negation, due to its illocutionary dynamicity, than in standard …