Modality in Swahili : epistemic modal adverbs in Swahili : insights from a historical Swahili corpus
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- Rasmus Bernander, Gilles-Maurice de Schryver (UGent) , Maud Devos (UGent) and Minah Nabirye (UGent)
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- Abstract
- In this study, we explore the main set of adverbs – i.e., free-standing, monorhematic and invariable non-nominal modifiers; Ramat & Ricca 1998 – used to express epistemic possibility in Swahili. The adverbs in question are pengine, huenda and lab(u)da.
- Keywords
- Swahili, Bantu, Eastern Africa, modality, possibility, necessity, variation, paths of change, contact-induced change, transfer, donor, recipient, diachronic corpus, “lazima”, “weza”, epistemic modal adverbs, “pengine”, “huenda”, “labuda / labda”, “yamkini / yumkini”
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Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-01JWM956MDPZJ45YEHXKK2KF9A
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- Bernander, Rasmus, et al. “Modality in Swahili : Epistemic Modal Adverbs in Swahili : Insights from a Historical Swahili Corpus.” Abstracts of Kongamano La Kiswahili La 37 / 37th Swahili Colloquium : Uhuru Na Ubunifu / Freedom and Creativity, Bayreuth University, Germany, 30 May – 1 June 2025, edited by Clarissa Vierke, African Linguistics and Literatures, Bayreuth University, 2025.
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- Bernander, R., de Schryver, G.-M., Devos, M., & Nabirye, M. (2025). Modality in Swahili : epistemic modal adverbs in Swahili : insights from a historical Swahili corpus. In C. Vierke (Ed.), Abstracts of Kongamano la Kiswahili la 37 / 37th Swahili Colloquium : Uhuru na Ubunifu / Freedom and Creativity, Bayreuth University, Germany, 30 May – 1 June 2025. Bayreuth: African Linguistics and Literatures, Bayreuth University.
- Chicago author-date
- Bernander, Rasmus, Gilles-Maurice de Schryver, Maud Devos, and Minah Nabirye. 2025. “Modality in Swahili : Epistemic Modal Adverbs in Swahili : Insights from a Historical Swahili Corpus.” In Abstracts of Kongamano La Kiswahili La 37 / 37th Swahili Colloquium : Uhuru Na Ubunifu / Freedom and Creativity, Bayreuth University, Germany, 30 May – 1 June 2025, edited by Clarissa Vierke. Bayreuth: African Linguistics and Literatures, Bayreuth University.
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- Bernander, Rasmus, Gilles-Maurice de Schryver, Maud Devos, and Minah Nabirye. 2025. “Modality in Swahili : Epistemic Modal Adverbs in Swahili : Insights from a Historical Swahili Corpus.” In Abstracts of Kongamano La Kiswahili La 37 / 37th Swahili Colloquium : Uhuru Na Ubunifu / Freedom and Creativity, Bayreuth University, Germany, 30 May – 1 June 2025, ed by. Clarissa Vierke. Bayreuth: African Linguistics and Literatures, Bayreuth University.
- Vancouver
- 1.Bernander R, de Schryver G-M, Devos M, Nabirye M. Modality in Swahili : epistemic modal adverbs in Swahili : insights from a historical Swahili corpus. In: Vierke C, editor. Abstracts of Kongamano la Kiswahili la 37 / 37th Swahili Colloquium : Uhuru na Ubunifu / Freedom and Creativity, Bayreuth University, Germany, 30 May – 1 June 2025. Bayreuth: African Linguistics and Literatures, Bayreuth University; 2025.
- IEEE
- [1]R. Bernander, G.-M. de Schryver, M. Devos, and M. Nabirye, “Modality in Swahili : epistemic modal adverbs in Swahili : insights from a historical Swahili corpus,” in Abstracts of Kongamano la Kiswahili la 37 / 37th Swahili Colloquium : Uhuru na Ubunifu / Freedom and Creativity, Bayreuth University, Germany, 30 May – 1 June 2025, Bayreuth University, Germany, 2025.
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