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Title
Sentensi za kuonyesha matukio yanayotokea kwa pamoja |
Full text
http://ul.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A11716; http://ul.qucosa.de/api/qucosa%3A11716/attachment/ATT-0/ |
Date
2012 |
Author(s)
Schadeberg, Thilo C. |
Contributor(s)
University of Leiden; Universität zu Köln |
Abstract
Kiswahili has many ways to express different relations that may hold between two events occurring at the same time. In this paper I examine and contrast the meanings of two types of verbal forms: those with the class 16 relative concord marker -po- and those with the tense marker -ki-. All examples are taken from a single small novel. I conclude that forms with PO tell us where or, more frequently, when something else occurred, whereas events presented in the KI-tense describe the situation existing at the time of some other event ('situative'). When that other event is non-factual the situation presented in the KI-tense expresses a condition. Elsewhere, the situation presented in the KI-tense may be backgrounded (in the discourse analysis sense of the term), but it may also be the main event that is hidden behind a more superficial situation (pace Contini-Morava 1989). |
Subject(s)
info:eu-repo/classification/ddc/496; ddc:496; Swahili; Linguistik; Swahili, Linguistik, Zeitaspekt; Swahili, linguistics, time aspect |
Language
swa |
Relation
urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-97211; qucosa:11673 |
Type of publication
doc-type:article; info:eu-repo/semantics/article; doc-type:Text |
Source
Swahili Forum; 2(1995), S. 158-167 |
Rights
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
Identifier
urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-98062 |
Repository
Dresden - Hochschulschriftenserver
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