Some Problems of Transitivity in Swahili
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First Published in 2004. The following essay is a tentative study of a little explored area of the delicate syntactic properties of transitivity for the language, Swahili. In eastern Africa the role of Swahili is a complicated one: it is spoken as a first language by a relatively small number of people, perhaps a million, living mainly along the East African littoral and on the off-shore islands of Pemba, Zanzibar and Mafia. It is spoken as a second language by a much larger number of people, in excess of ten million, in up-country Tanzania and Kenya, most of whom speak as a first language, a Bantu language more or less closely related to it. It is spoken as a third language by an indeterminate but probably quite large number of people (certainly in excess of a million) in Uganda, the Congo (Kinshasa) Republic and the Nilotic-speaking areas of Kenya.
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- ISBN-13: 9780901877796
- ISBN-10: 0901877794
- Publisher: Routledge
- Publish Date: November 2004
- Dimensions: 9.21 x 6.14 x 0.26 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.41 pounds
- Page Count: 124
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