124 Pages
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Routledge
120 Pages
by
Routledge
124 Pages
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Routledge
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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... Read more
Preface, Introduction, Transitivity and entailment, Deiatiled examonation of verbs and their entailment patterns, Part I Minimal radicals, Part II Extended radicals
Biography
W.H. Whiteley Professor of Bantu Languages in the University of London
