An Analysis of the Verbal Marker tsa in Luguru
This paper deals with a morphosyntactic phenomenon found in the under-described Bantu language Luguru, spoken in central Tanzania: the verbal marker tsa. This marker encodes shared knowledge or shared reference. The meanings conveyed by the marker stretch from ‘at a specific time’ or ‘at that place’...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2020
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Studia Orientalia Electronica
Year: 2020, Volume: 8, Issue: 3, Pages: 119-133 |
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Luguru (African people)
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| Summary: | This paper deals with a morphosyntactic phenomenon found in the under-described Bantu language Luguru, spoken in central Tanzania: the verbal marker tsa. This marker encodes shared knowledge or shared reference. The meanings conveyed by the marker stretch from ‘at a specific time’ or ‘at that place’ to ‘as we know’, or even ‘for that reason’. In Mkude’s grammatical description of Luguru from 1974, there is a mention of a marker (zaa) signalling what he calls "recollected reference", which restricts the event to one specific moment in the past; this marker is believed to have developed into today’s tsa. |
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| ISSN: | 2323-5209 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Studia Orientalia Electronica
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.23993/store.72806 |