The Grammar Basics of Kabwa

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2015 to 2017
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21 pages
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This document is intended to be a very basic reference to the common morphosyntactic structures of Kabwa. Though we hope that other linguists will be able to make use of it, its primary purpose is to help non-linguists (who have at least a small amount of linguistic training) who are working with the language, e.g. literacy workers, translators, translation consultants, spell-checkers, etc. For this reason, unless otherwise noted, data is written in the Kabwa orthography, with the aim that it is more accessible to our intended audience.
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Draft (posted 'as is' without peer review)
Table of Contents: 
1. Noun classes 2. Personal pronouns and their agreement 3. Noun class agreement 3.1 Quantificational, set and interrogative pronouns 3.2 Associatives 3.3 Possessive Pronouns 3.4 Demonstratives 3.5 Numerals 4. Tense/Aspect/Mood 4.1 Basic forms 4.2 Negative verbs 4.3 Copular verbs 4.4 Compound verbs 5. Verbal extensions 6. Relative clauses
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Tanzania
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Entry Number: 
73083