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Title:		Verbal categories in U̱t-Ma'in, a Kainji language of Nigeria
Abstract:		Bibliography Nurse, Hewson & Rose (2010) Nurse, D., Hewson, J. & Rose, S. (2010). Verbal Categories in Niger-Congo. Retrieved from https://web.archive.org/web/20120102020440/http://www.mun.ca/linguistics/nico/index.php
Access Rights:		Open Access
Bibliographic Citation:		Paterson, Rebecca D. 2014. _Verbal categories in U̱t-Ma'in, a Kainji language of Nigeria_. Paper presented at the 45th Annual conference on African Linguistics at the University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS.
Description:		A recent study (Nurse et al. 2010) surveyed Niger-Congo verbal categories. However, no data from Kainji languages was included quite likely because very little on Kainji languages has been researched or published. This paper offers data from U̠t-Ma'in [[gel](https://iso639-3.sil.org/code/gel)], a Kainji language, spoken in Kebbi State and Niger State, Nigeria. Additional comparative verbal morphology data is presented from closely related languages, C’Lela [[dri](https://iso639-3.sil.org/code/dri)] and U̠t-Hun [[dud](https://iso639-3.sil.org/code/dud)]. U̠t-Ma'in employs verbal suffixes, a series of pre-verb auxiliaries and nominalizations to express the various tense and aspect categories of the language. Within the auxiliary paradigm, there is a three way tense distinction: past imperfective, present imperfective and future. The suffixed verb morphology paradigm shows only a two way tense distinction: past versus non-past. (1)ɘ̄ mrɛ́ -g-ɘ̄ nsāpɘ zwɘ̄ g ɘ̄ r1 SG eat- PST - DISTriceLOCZuru.town‘I ate rice in Zuru (before coming here)’ The suffixing paradigm expresses additional aspectual meanings for past forms, which include perfective interpretations along with distance (1), affectedness of the object, and exclusiveness of the subject (2), which emphasizes that only the referent of the subject pronoun/noun is capable of or subject to the predicate. To my knowledge, this type of exclusivity of the subject has not been described as a verbal category within an aspect system. (2)újɘ̄ n-ɛhɔ̀ g-d-ɘ̀ -mɛ C 1.3 SGleave- EXCLhear- C 5- ASSOC -6 M -shame‘(Only) he left ashamed.’
Identifier (URI):		https://hughandbecky.us/Becky-CV/talk/2014-verbal-categories-in-utmain/
Language:		English
Language (ISO639):		eng
Subject:		Verb
		Kainji
		ut-Ma'in language
Subject (ISO639):		gel
Type (DCMI):		Event
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Archive:		Rebecca Paterson's Interactive Research Portfolio
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OaiIdentifier:		oai:hughandbecky.us:0020
DateStamp:		2021-02-22
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Citation:		n.a. n.d. Rebecca Paterson's Interactive Research Portfolio.
Terms:		area_Africa area_Europe country_GB country_NG dcmi_Event iso639_eng iso639_gel
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Country:		Nigeria
Area:		Africa