The verb 'be' in Kikamba: issues in identifying the form
| dc.contributor.author | Kioko, Angelina N. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2015-06-02T09:25:36Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2015-06-02T09:25:36Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1999 | |
| dc.description | Article | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | triedfor three years to find the verb 'have'in Ewe ... " Those were the words uttered with a m' of frustration and delight of a missionary on furlough several years ago. (Welmers 1972. 208) This quotation echoes the challenges presented to a researcher in Bantu linguistics b) surface structure (spoken) form of a typical Bantu language. A major part of the problem is attrib to the many morphophonological processes operating on the basic forms thus obscuring the a forms of particular morphemes and/or lexical items. Given the spoken form of Kikamba, for e one can isolate four forms of the verb 'be'; e, nii' and -ith(i) w- as the sentences below show | en_US |
| dc.description.sponsorship | Kenyatta University | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citation | CHEMCHEMI International Journal of Arts and Social Sciences VOLUME 1 DEC. 1999 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1563- 1028 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://ir-library.ku.ac.ke/handle/123456789/12734 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Kenyatta University | en_US |
| dc.title | The verb 'be' in Kikamba: issues in identifying the form | en_US |
| dc.type | Article | en_US |
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