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Nassenstein, Nico (2017). Pluractional marking in Bunia Swahili (Ituri Kingwana). STUF-Lang. Typol. Universals, 70 (1). S. 195 - 214. BERLIN: WALTER DE GRUYTER GMBH. ISSN 2196-7148

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Abstract

The concept of pluractionality is less common in Bantu languages than in other language families, such as Chadic (Afro-Asiatic) and various Nilo-Saharan languages. Yet many Bantu languages reveal patterns of habituals, combinations of verbal extensions and reduplication patterns that can function in pluractional-like ways in order to mark plurality or multiplicity of the verb's action (Nurse 2008, Tense and aspect in Bantu. Oxford: Oxford University Press: 314). Bunia Swahili, an un(der)documented variety of Swahili spoken in Eastern DR Congo, has undergone contact-induced change that can be traced back to Central Sudanic languages, and has developed fluid registers of socially motivated realization. It contains different habitual markers expressing deviating semantic concepts, while habitual markers can also be combined in order to express evidentiality. Reduplication patterns as markers for pluractionality and their co-occurrence with habituals as gradual semantic continua are both taken into account in this preliminary overview. It is therefore proposed that 'semantic aspect' plays a predominant role in pluractional constructions in Bunia Swahili.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Nassenstein, Nico UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-234278
DOI:	10.1515/stuf-2017-0010
Journal or Publication Title:	STUF-Lang. Typol. Universals
Volume:	70
Number:	1
Page Range:	S. 195 - 214
Date:	2017
Publisher:	WALTER DE GRUYTER GMBH
Place of Publication:	BERLIN
ISSN:	2196-7148
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language Language & Linguistics Multiple languages
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/23427