Some Problems of Transitivity in Swahili
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Adjunct Phrase
advanced Swahili syntax research
Author_W. H. Whiteley
Bantu languages
Category=GTM
Clasped
East African linguistics
entailment
entailment patterns
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
extended
Extended Form
Extended Verb
Follow
form
grammar
Grandma
Held
Intransitive
linguistic fieldwork
Mahali
Maneno
Mgeni
minimal
Minimal Form
Minimal Radicals
minor
Minor Pattern
Moyo
pattern
Pattern P0
patterns
Pera Tive
Radical Extended
radicals
Ring Bit
Swahili Grammar
Swahili Scholars
syntactic analysis
Transitivity Patterns
University Of Wisconsin
verb
verb argument structure
Vocalic Extensions
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- ISBN 9780901877796
- Weight: 230g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 11 Nov 2004
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
W.H. Whiteley Professor of Bantu Languages in the University of London
