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Vol. 7 No. 2 (2018)

Tense Sensitivity of Shambala Relative Markers

https://doi.org/10.56279/jhss.v7i2.30
Salehe Kaoneka Mkwawa

Corresponding Author(s) : Salehe Kaoneka Mkwawa

skaoneka@yahoo.com

Journal of Humanities & Social Science (JHSS), Vol. 7 No. 2 (2018)

Abstract

Shambala provided in previous Shambala studies (c.f. Besha, 200; and Riedel, 2009). It describes relative formation strategies in the Shambala Bantu language (G.23) by focusing on the analysis of the constraints posed by relative markers on tense systems of the language. The study reveals three important issues: first, the positioning of the Shambala relative markers is highly constrained by tense; second, in unmarked situations, every relative marker is restricted to a particular tense; and third, when marked, some relative markers may refer to other tenses by means of the auxiliaries ka- and –za-.
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relative clause relative marker Shambala tense sensitivity features
Tense Sensitivity of Shambala Relative Markers. (2018). Journal of Humanities & Social Science (JHSS), 7(2). https://doi.org/10.56279/jhss.v7i2.30
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