RVN Webinar Series - Disentangling the fusion of periphrastics in Datooga verbal inflection
Channel: Rift Valley Network
Date: 2019-10-18

Note: This talk has not gone through a process of peer review, and findings should therefore be treated as preliminary and subject to change.

How to cite: Kießling, Roland. 2019. Future tense and persistive aspect - disentangling the fusion of periphrastic constructions in Datooga verbal inflection. Talk given at Rift Valley Webinar Series 16/10/2019.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3506002

Abstract: This talk treats the verbal morphology of Datooga, a group of Southern Nilotic varieties, from a synchronic, as well as from a diachronic perspective. It is shown that the preverbal clitic complex’s likely origins are in a historical periphrastic construction. This serves at once as a valuable exercise in the description of Datooga, as well as an exploration of grammaticalization pathways for the languages of the Tanzanian Rift.

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