Abstract
The evaluation strategies in Kiswahili display an ambiguous status between inflection (as it was in Proto-Bantu, where classes 12-13, 19 expressed diminution, and classes 20-23 intensification) and derivation: in Modern Kiswahili these classes are lost, and the evaluative category arises by means of a highly productive derivational rule shifting a noun stem to another class: to class 5 for augmentatives, to class 7 for diminutives, because of the semantics of these classes.
The morpheme (-)ji-, originally the prefix marker of class 5, is actually admitted also within a word after another class prefix, sanctioning the birth of noun derivational morphology in Kiswahili: in most cases it has become a morpheme of intensification, but sometimes it can mark a change in size, either augmentative or diminutive.
Lingua originale | Inglese |
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Titolo della pubblicazione ospite | Exploring intensification. Synchronic, diachronic and cross-linguistic perspectives |
Editore | John Benjamins |
Pagine | 79-97 |
Numero di pagine | 19 |
ISBN (stampa) | 9789027259547 |
Stato di pubblicazione | Pubblicato - 1 gen 2017 |
Pubblicato esternamente | Sì |