Aspect and modality in Kwa languages / edited by Felix K. Ameka, M.E. Kropp Dakubu.

This book explores the thesis that in the Kwa languages of West Africa, aspect and modality are more central to the grammar of the verb than tense. Where tense marking has emerged it is invariably in the expression of the future, and therefore concerned with the impending actualization or potentiali...

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Other Authors: Ameka, Felix K., Kropp Dakubu, M. E. (Mary Esther)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2008.
Series:Studies in language companion series ; v. 100.
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