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T1  - Actionality and aspect in Southern Ndebele and Xhosa, two Nguni languages of South Africa 
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UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10138/334583 
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A1  - Crane, Thera Marie; Persohn, Bastian 
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Y1  - 2021 
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AB  - This paper presents some key findings of studies of actionality and the verbal grammar–lexicon interface in two Nguni Bantu languages of South Africa, Xhosa and Southern Ndebele. We describe interactions between grammatical tense marking (and other sentential bounding elements) and lexical verb types, arguing for the salience of inchoative verbs, which lexically encode a resultant state, and, in particular, a sub-class of inchoative verbs, two-phase verbs, which encode both a resultant state and... 
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