Grammatical tone in the Tense-Aspect-Mood-Polarity system of Ngwi (West-Coastal Bantu B861, DRC) Universiteit Gent
In this article, we offer a first description of the Tense Aspect Mood Polarity (TAMP) system of Ngwi, a poorly described West-Coastal Bantu language spoken along the left bank of the Lower Kasai River in the present-day Kwilu Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). We present a preliminary account of Ngwi’s compact morphological verb templates and the distinctive morphology of 24 different verb conjugations, including several ...