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Kawalya, Deo
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De Schryver, Gilles-Maurice
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Bostoen, Koen
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2019-05-23T07:57:21Z |
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2018 |
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dc.description.abstract |
In this article, a comparison is made of the expression of possibility in West Nyanza Bantu languages in order to reconstruct the origins of Luganda’s two most frequent possibility markers, viz. the near-synonymous auxiliaries -sóból- and -yînz-. Earlier Luganda diachronic corpus-driven analyses showed that -yînz- has been involved in expressing all possibility categories since the 1890s, which is when Luganda was first reduced to writing, while -sóból- acquired deontic possibility as a meaning only in the 1950s. Although this would suggest that -yînz- is the possibility marker with the greatest time depth in Luganda and across West Nyanza, with -sóból- a relative newcomer, the comparative data which is presented in this article indicates the opposite. It is shown that while -yînz- only exists in some West Nyanza languages (namely in the subgroup which includes Luganda, Lusoga and Lugwere), -sóból- is attested in all West Nyanza languages as well as in other Great Lakes Bantu languages outside West Nyanza. The fact that the cognates of -sóból- in all Great Lakes Bantu languages carry a dynamic modal meaning ‘be able’ suggests that its modal usage is older in any of the individual languages considered here than what language-internal Luganda data seems to suggest. |
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African Languages |
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2019-09-23 |
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hj2019 |
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dc.description.uri |
https://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rjal20 |
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dc.identifier.citation |
Deo Kawalya, Gilles-Maurice de Schryver & Koen Bostoen (2018) Reconstructing the origins of the Luganda (JE15) modal auxiliaries -sóból- and -yînz-: A historical-comparative study across the West Nyanza Bantu cluster, South African Journal of African Languages, 38:1, 13-25. |
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dc.identifier.issn |
0257-2117 (print) |
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2305-1159 (online) |
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10.1080/02572117.2018.1429855 |
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http://hdl.handle.net/2263/69203 |
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en |
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dc.publisher |
NISC (Pty) Ltd and Informa UK Limited (trading as Taylor & Francis Group) |
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dc.rights |
© 2018 NISC (Pty) Ltd. This is an electronic version of an article published in South African Journal of African Languages, vol. 38, no. 1, pp. 13-25, 2018. doi : 10.1080/02572117.2018.1429855. South African Journal of African Languages is available online at : http://www.tandfonline.comloi/rjal20. |
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dc.subject |
Luganda (JE15) |
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dc.subject |
West Nyanza languages |
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dc.subject.other |
Humanities articles SDG-04 |
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SDG-04: Quality education |
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dc.title |
Reconstructing the origins of the Luganda (JE15) modal auxiliaries -sóból- and -yînz- : a historical-comparative study across the West Nyanza Bantu cluster |
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dc.type |
Postprint Article |
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