Peter Nichols

A Morpho-semantic Analysis of Aspectuality in siSwati

A cognitive approach to the analysis of the Alterative, Persistive and Inceptive aspects in siSwati

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Produktbeschreibung

This study develops an analysis of three aspects in siSwati, a southern African Bantu language spoken in Swaziland and South Africa: PERSISTIVE aspect, encoded by the aspect marker -sa-, ALTERATIVE aspect, encoded by -se- and INCEPTIVE aspect encoded by be-. A distinctive characteristic of two of the aspects is that they link two separate time periods and so they have been described as dual-time period aspects. One is the PERSISTIVE which is an aspect already well-documented and studied cross-linguistically in the Bantu languages and other groups and the other is analysed as the ALTERATIVE which is a new term the author has applied to an aspect not formerly recognised in linguistic studies. This thesis has wider significance for cross-linguistic recognition of dual-time period aspects, which have so far been largely associated with the PERFECT but is a more wide spread quality of natural language aspect systems.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
• Aufl.
• Seitenzahl: 412
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 220mm
• ISBN-13: 9783847339557
• ISBN-10: 3847339559
• Artikelnr.: 34825340

Autorenporträt

Peter Nichols studied for his BA degree in General Linguistics at Sussex University followed by a Masters in Cognitive Linguistics. His masters dissertation explored the temporal cognition of time in siSwati, a Bantu language spoken in Swaziland in southern Africa. These two elements (cognition and Bantu studies) motivated his doctoral thesis.