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T1  - Verb forms and concordance in English to Swahili machine translation 
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UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10138/310873 
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A1  - Hurskainen, Arvi 
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PB  - University of Helsinki, Institute for Asian and African Studies 
Y1  - 2019 
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AB  - The translation of English verb forms to Swahili is exceptionally problematic for several reasons. While English verb has only five possible forms, Swahili verb has theoretically millions of valid forms. Not all of them can be found in practice for each verb lemma. However, it is not difficult to find over two thousand forms for a single verb. The complexity derives from the noun class system and from the fact that Swahili encodes morphological and also syntactic features as part of the verb. Mo... 
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