Grammatical Categories of Verb Stems in Chadic

This study rejects various theories on the nature and history of the Chadic verbal system which claimed that Proto-Chadic had a fundamental binary distinction of aspect and a characteristically marked Imperfective verb stem. This study presents comparative evidence from 10 languages of the Biu- Mandara branch of Chadic to support its

Summary

This study rejects various theories on the nature and history of the Chadic verbal system which claimed that Proto-Chadic had a fundamental binary distinction of aspect and a characteristically marked Imperfective verb stem. This study presents comparative evidence from 10 languages of the Biu- Mandara branch of Chadic to support its contention.

Product details

• Authors: Wolff, E Wolff, E. Wolff
• Publisher: Undena Publications,U.S.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2021
• EAN: 9780890039144
• ISBN: 978-0-89003-914-4
• No. of pages: 48
• Series: Afroasiatic Linguistics
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies