Marina Castagneto
List of John Benjamins publications for which Marina Castagneto plays a role.
Article
2017 Chapter 4. Noun classification in Kiswahili: Linguistic strategies to intensify or to reduce Exploring Intensification: Synchronic, diachronic and cross-linguistic perspectives, Napoli, Maria and Miriam Ravetto (eds.), pp. 79–98 | Chapter
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… read more