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The noncausal/causa...
The noncausal/causal alternation in Kagulu, an East Ruvu Bantu language of Tanzania
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Dom, Sebastian, 1990 (författare)
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Bar-el, Leora, 1973 (författare)
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Kanijo, Ponsiano Sawaka (författare)
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- Petzell, Malin, 1972 (författare)
- Gothenburg University,Göteborgs universitet,Institutionen för språk och litteraturer,Department of Languages and Literatures
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- 2023
- 2023
- Engelska.
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Ingår i: Journal of African Languages and Linguistics. - 0167-6164 .- 1613-3811. ; 44:2, s. 129-153
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Abstract
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- This paper explores the formal correspondences between the members of verb pairs participating in the noncausal/causal alternation in Kagulu, a Bantu language from Tanzania. Our investigation shows that Kagulu has a predominance of equipollent verb pairs, with the anticausative and causative correspondences following close behind. We argue that, diachronically, the causative correspondence was much more prominent than it is in present-day Kagulu. However, due to morphophonological changes triggered by the historical causative suffix *-i, a significant number of verb pairs that are diachronically causative can be synchronically reanalyzed as equipollent. This study highlights the complexity of diachronic morphology in synchronic analyses of comparative-typological phenomena such as the noncausal/causal alternation, and contributes to the growing body of research on noncausal/causal verb pairs in African languages.
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- HUMANIORA -- Språk och litteratur -- Studier av enskilda språk (hsv//swe)
- HUMANITIES -- Languages and Literature -- Specific Languages (hsv//eng)
- HUMANIORA -- Språk och litteratur -- Jämförande språkvetenskap och allmän lingvistik (hsv//swe)
- HUMANITIES -- Languages and Literature -- General Language Studies and Linguistics (hsv//eng)
Nyckelord
- Bantu
- Kagulu
- noncausal-causal alternation
- verbal derivation
- diachrony versus synchrony
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- ref (ämneskategori)
- art (ämneskategori)
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