Nordic Journal of African Studies Vol. 35 No. 1 (2026): NJAS Special Issue: Auxiliary Verb Constructions in Bantu Languages
Authors/Creators
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University of Helsinki
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University of Dar es Salaam
Contributors
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University of Gothenburg
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Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
- 3. Chuka University
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University of Zurich
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University of Essex
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University of the Witwatersrand
Description
Special issue of Nordic Journal of African Studies
Originally posted as individual articles at https://njas.fi/njas/issue/view/126 or https://doi.org/10.53228/njasaux
This version features the full volume in one downloadable document.
Article authors are listed as "other" contributors above.
Contents
Introduction to the Special Issue: Advancing the Study of Auxiliary Systems in Bantu 1
Ponsiano Sawaka Kanijo, Rasmus Bernander, Eva-Marie Bloom Ström, Thera Marie Crane & Hilde Gunnink
Auxiliaries and Analyticity in Northwestern Bantu 7
Elisabeth J. Kerr
Auxiliary Verb Constructions and Decategorialization in Gĩkũyũ 43
Jens Fleischhauer & Claudius Patrick Kihara
On the Morphology, Interpretation, and Development of the Kagulu Auxiliary ng’hali 75
Leora Bar-el, Ponsiano Sawaka Kanijo & Malin Petzell
BE Auxiliary Verb Constructions in Kihehe 101
Robert Botne
The Development of Negative ‘have’ Auxiliaries in the Bantu Languages of the Middle and Lower Zambezi 136
Aron Zahran, Maud Devos & Rozenn Guérois
Southern Bantu Auxiliary Functions and Their Distributions 188
Thera Marie Crane
Dedicated Auxiliaries in Tswana (Bantu S31) 260
Denis Creissels
The Pragmatic Functions of the Auxiliary Verbs za ‘come’ and ya ‘go’ in isiXhosa 289
Stefan Savić
Auxiliary Stacking in Southern Bantu Languages 316
Thera Marie Crane, Hannah Gibson & Kristina Riedel
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