The Acquisition of Swahili

by Kamil Ud Deen

This monograph is the first study of the acquisition of Swahili as a first language. It focuses on the acquisition of inflectional affixes, with a particular emphasis on subject agreement and tense. Other inflectional affixes are also investigated, including object agreement and mood. The study surveys the adult dialect in question, Nairobi Swahili, discussing social, phonological, morphological and syntactic properties. Data, analyses and copious...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9027253005
• ISBN13: 9789027253002
• Release Date: November 2005
• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
• Length: 241 Pages