The manifold uses of –a in Naro, including comments on a.

Several homophones –a occur in Naro. In this paper, an attempt is made to disambiguate the functional properties of –a, and also of the stand-alone a. The different uses will be shown, together with examples of each. A distinction is made between uses of–a carrying syntactic meaning, and occurrence...

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Main Author: Hessel Visser
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: LibraryPress@UF 2023-12-01
Series:Studies in African Linguistics
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Online Access:https://journals.flvc.org/sal/article/view/134281