Aspectual forms in Lutsotso
##plugins.themes.bootstrap3.article.main##
Abstract
This paper analyses the inflectional category of aspect in Lutsotso, a dialect of the Oluluhya macro-language. Using descriptive approach, the paper establishes that there are a number of inflectional morphemes affixed on the verb root to express, e.g. person, number, tense, aspect and mood. Among these affixes, tense and aspect categories interact largely, hence, it is difficult to study one category without referring to the other. While tense and aspect are profoundly connected in Lutsotso, this paper only identifies and describes the inflectional form of aspect. Generally, aspect in Lutsotso relates to the grammatical viewpoints such as the perfective, imperfective and iterative forms. This includes the temporal properties of situations and the situation types as well. Aspect just like other grammatical categories such as tense, mood, person, agreement and number are important in understanding the grammar of Lutsotso.
##plugins.themes.bootstrap3.displayStats.downloads##
##plugins.themes.bootstrap3.article.details##
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
This open-access article is distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 license.
You are free to:
Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format.
Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially. The licensor cannot revoke these freedoms as long as you follow the license terms.
Under the following terms: Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
No additional restrictions: You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.
How to Cite
References
Angogo, R. (1983). Unity in diversity: A linguistic survey of the Abaluyia of Western Province. Afro-Publishers.
Appleby, L. L. (1961). First Luya Grammar with Exercises. The East African Literature Bureau.
Barasa, D. (2015). The Inflectional forms of tense and aspect in Ateso. The University of Nairobi journal of Language and Linguistics, 4: 82-102.
Comrie, B. (1985). Tense. Cambridge University Press.
Crystal, D. (1997). A dictionary of linguistics and phonetics (Vol. 30). John Wiley & Sons.
DeCarrico, J. S. 2000. The Structure of English: Studies in Form and Language Teaching. The University of Michigan Press.
Eberhard, D. M., Simons, G. F., & Fennig, C. D. (Eds.). 2019. Ethnologue: Languages of the World. (Twenty-second edition). SIL International. Retrieved from http://www.ethnologue.com, 22-12-2020.
Fromkin V. (2013) An introduction to language. (JM Flaherty, Ed.). Boston: Cengage Learning.
Givon T. (2001). Syntax: An Introduction. John Benjamins Publishing Company
Okombo, D. O (2000) “Building Techniques in African Languages”, in V. Webb and S. Kembo (Eds.). African Voices: An Introduction to the Languages and Linguistics of Africa. (pp. 197- 219). New York: Oxford University Press.
Payne, T.E. (1997). Describing Morphosyntax: A guide for field Linguistics. Cambridge University Press.
Sikuku, J. (1998). The morphosyntactic structure of Lubukusu anaphoric relations. Government and Binding Approach. Unpublished M.A. Thesis, Moi University.