A Discourse Analysis of Three Past TAM Forms in Vwanji

This paper presents data from Vwanji, an under-documented Bantu language spoken by approximately 28,000 people in southwestern Tanzania. Bantu languages are well known for having multiple degrees of past time reference grammaticalized in their TAM systems, and Vwanji is a good example of such a lang...

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Main Author: Eaton, Helen (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: [publisher not identified] 2020
In: Studia Orientalia Electronica
Year: 2020, Volume: 8, Issue: 3, Pages: 65-80
Further subjects:B Vwanji
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