Diachronic semantics of the modal verb -sóból- in Luganda: A corpus-driven approach

International Journal of Corpus Linguistics

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 60-93

  Kawalya, Deo ^a   Bostoen, Koen ^a   De Schryver, Gilles Maurice ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Bantu; Diachronic corpus analysis; Grammaticalisation; Modality; Possibility

Indexed keywords

EID: 84900327700     PISSN: 13846655     EISSN: 15699811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/ijcl.19.1.03kaw     Document Type: Article

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