The morphological evolution of the -ile suffix across bantu languages in the Nyasa-Tanganyika corridor

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dc.contributor.authorMallya, Aurelia
dc.contributor.authorRobinson, Nichodamus
dc.date.accessioned2022-07-25T09:09:57Z
dc.date.available2022-07-25T09:09:57Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.descriptionJournal Articleen_US
dc.description.abstractThis paper describes the morphological evolution of -ile suffix across four Bantu languages selected from the Nyasa-Tanganyika corridor. The suffix -ile which is traditionally an aspect (perfective) marker is changing and becoming amenable to different roles across Bantu languages. This poses a challenge in specifying its roles as a tense and/or an aspect marker unless attention is paid to an individual language. The findings presented in this paper indicate that in the languages under study, the suffix -ile functions as both a tense and an aspect marker. It co-occurs with pre-root formatives to mark different past tenses. In Nyakyusa, in particular, the suffix marks different categories of aspect, namely anterior, non-progressive and indefinite conditional aspect. However, in Ndali, Malila and Nyiha, the suffix -ile marks only the non-progressive aspect. In this view, this paper concludes that the -ile suffix is gradually vanishing in the forms for aspect meanwhile it extends its roles into marking different tense categoriesen_US
dc.identifier.issn2026-8297
dc.identifier.urihttp://www.suaire.sua.ac.tz/handle/123456789/4338
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subject-ile suffixen_US
dc.subjectNyasa-Tanganyika corridoren_US
dc.subjectMorphological evolutionen_US
dc.subjectTenseen_US
dc.subjectAspecten_US
dc.titleThe morphological evolution of the -ile suffix across bantu languages in the Nyasa-Tanganyika corridoren_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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