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Publication details [#10041]

Whiteley, W.H. and J.D. Mganga. 1969. Focus and entailment: Further problems of transitivity in Swahili. Language and Cognitive ProcessesChinese Language & Discourse 8 : 108–125.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Language as a subject

Annotation

The authors, one of which (W.) proposed a verbal classification of Swahili based on the relations between sentences and their possible entailments, come to the conclusion that an additional feature, viz. 'focus' or 'marking', plays an important role in the sentence/entailment framework.