The curious case of auxiliary -manya in Lwitaxo
Lwitaxo, one of the Luhya languages of Kenya, has an auxiliary verb of the form -many’a that occurs in compound constructions that express either a generic reading (“normally do V”) or a culminative reading (“ended up V-ing”). This verb is identical in form to the lexical verb -many’a ‘(come to) kno...
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LibraryPress@UF
2009-06-01
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| Serier: | Studies in African Linguistics |
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| Online adgang: | https://ojs.test.flvc.org/sal/article/view/107288 |
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