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Focus and the Morphology of the Swahili Verb

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 December 2009

Joan Maw
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In this article, some previously unrecognized facts about the way the morphology of the verb manifests relationships within clauses in Swahili are presented, in the context of current general linguistic interest in functional semantics.

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies , Volume 39 , Issue 2 , June 1976 , pp. 389 - 402
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Copyright © School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London 1976

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