Entre modalité et conditionnalité

In the Bantu language Kirundi (JD62), the verbal prefix oo- has traditionally been described as either conditional or potential. In this article, we show by means of a corpus-based analysis of its uses that it is first and foremost a modal prefix, and its conditional use is only a secondary developm...

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Main Authors: Ferdinand Mberamihigo, Gilles-Maurice de Schryver, Koen Bostoen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: LibraryPress@UF 2020-09-01
Series:Studies in African Linguistics
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Online Access:https://journals.flvc.org/sal/article/view/125887