Open Accessimpact 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).