TY - BOOK ID - 25086 TI - The Verb in Nyakyusa AU - Persohn, Bastian PY - 2017 SN - 9783961100149 9783961100156 DB - DOAB KW - mbeya region KW - verb KW - tanzania KW - modality KW - aspect KW - tense KW - bantu languages UR - https://www.doabooks.org/doab?func=search&query=rid:25086 AB - 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 language. The topics covered include the complex morphophonological and morphological processes as well as verb-to-verb derivation, copula verbs and grammaticalized verbs of motion. The main body of the book consists of a detailed description of tense, aspect and modality constructions, which includes not only an in-depth discussion of their sentence level semantics, but also of their patterns of employment in discourse. ER -