An Optimality Theoretic Perspective on Perfective Imbrication in siSwati
Imbrication is a morphophonological change in many Bantu languages in which a morpheme -il-/-ir-, which may be glossed as perfective, stative or past (Hyman 1995), fuses with the verb stem through CV metathesis, consonant deletion and vowel coalescence, subject to varying requirements and degrees o...
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| Language: | English |
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Nordic Africa Research Network
2017-12-01
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| Series: | Nordic Journal of African Studies |
| Online Access: | https://www.njas.fi/njas/article/view/78 |