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impact of the morphological alternation of subject markers on tense/aspect: the case of Swahili

Author(s) -

Ahmadi Kipacha

Publication year - 2006

Publication title -

zas papers in linguistics

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

ISSN - 1435-9588

DOI - 10.21248/zaspil.43.2006.286

Subject(s) - swahili , subject (documents) , linguistics , alternation (linguistics) , variation (astronomy) , history , computer science , philosophy , physics , library science , astrophysics

Subject markers for the first, second and third person singular in Southern Swahili dialects display morphological variation in that specific forms are chosen with different tense-aspect markers. This paper documents this variation in the different dialects and presents a distributional chart which reveals the symmetric patterns between these subject markers and their corresponding tense-aspect formatives. The study corroborates earlier work in the manifestation of variant morphological tense-aspect formatives of the regional dialects of Swahili by Mazrui (1983).

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