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Sentensi za kuonyesha matukio yanayotokea kwa pamoja

Kiswahili has many ways to express different relations that may hold between two events occurring at the same time. In this paper I examine and contrast the meanings of two types of verbal forms: those with the class 16 relative concord marker -po- and those with the tense marker -ki-. All examples are taken from a single small novel. I conclude that forms with PO tell us where or, more frequently, when something else occurred, whereas events presented in the KI-tense describe the situation existing at the time of some other event (`situative´). When that other event is non-factual the situation presented in the KI-tense expresses a condition. Elsewhere, the situation presented in the KI-tense may be backgrounded (in the discourse analysis sense of the term), but it may also be the main event that is hidden behind a more superficial situation (pace Contini-Morava 1989).

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:DRESDEN/oai:qucosa:de:qucosa:11716
Date30 November 2012
CreatorsSchadeberg, Thilo C.
ContributorsUniversity of Leiden, Universität zu Köln
Source SetsHochschulschriftenserver (HSSS) der SLUB Dresden
LanguageSwahili
Detected LanguageEnglish
Typedoc-type:article, info:eu-repo/semantics/article, doc-type:Text
SourceSwahili Forum; 2(1995), S. 158-167
Rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Relationurn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-97211, qucosa:11673

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