- AutorIn
- Makoto Furumoto
- Titel
- On the copula in the Kikae dialect of Swahili
- Zitierfähige Url:
- https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-199679
- Quellenangabe
- Swahili-Forum - 22.2015
- Quellenangabe
- Swahili Forum 22 (2015), S. 20-41
- Erstveröffentlichung
- 2015
- Abstract (EN)
- The Kikae dialect is a regional variety of Swahili spoken in the southern part of Unguja, the largest island of the Zanzibar archipelago. In this dialect, the morpheme -wa preceded by a subject prefix, which agrees with the subject in person or noun class, is used as a copula. This form is used in neither Standard Swahili nor the Kiunguja dialect considered prestigious dialects of Swahili. In this paper, I describe the morphological and semantic characteristics of this copula, which have not been observed in previous studies, and propose a possible grammaticalisation path of the copula based on its synchronic properties and typological evidence. The following three claims will be made: 1. the subject prefix -wa morphologically corresponds to the perfect form, but does not encode a prior event unlike the perfect form of other verbs. 2. The use of the subject prefix -wa copula is restricted to ‘predicational sentences’. 3. It is highly probable that the subject prefix -wa has grammaticalized from a locative verb
- Freie Schlagwörter (DE)
- Kopula, Kikae, Swahili, Dialekt
- Freie Schlagwörter (EN)
- Copula, Kikae, Swahili, Dialect
- Klassifikation (DDC)
- 496
- Normschlagwörter (GND)
- Swahili , Außereuropäische Sprachen , Dialekt , Kopula
- Herausgeber (Institution)
- Kyoto University
- Universität Leipzig
- URN Qucosa
- urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-199679
- Veröffentlichungsdatum Qucosa
- 30.03.2016
- Dokumenttyp
- Artikel
- Sprache des Dokumentes
- Englisch