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Tense, Aspect, And Mood In Town Nyanja: A Morphological Inventory And Contrastive Analysis From Chichewa, Jonathan Beers

Linguistics

The Bantu languages Nyanja and Chichewa are considered dialects of the same language in some circles; Town Nyanja is one of three different dialects among Nyanja itself, spoken in Zambia’s capital city, Lusaka. This piece of research delves into morphological data provided by a Town Nyanja native speaker through a series of remote video elicitations. While potentially (and likely) not comprehensive, this paper includes a morphological inventory of tense, aspect, and mood markers for Town Nyanja verbs, and contrasts these morphemes with those present in Chichewa; it is the belief of this researcher that there is significant evidence that the …