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Project

A corpus-driven study of the expression of modality in Luganda (Bantu, JE15)
Code
01W02013
Duration
01 October 2013 → 30 September 2017
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Research disciplines
  • Humanities and the arts
    • Language studies
    • Literary studies
Keywords
Bantu corpus linguistics Luganda modality African languages Africa Linguistics
 
Project description
 

This project is a systematic study of the semantic domain of modality in Luganda, an Ugandan Bantu Language. Modality is understudied in Bantu linguistics. The study will be entirely based on a text corpus, which is also methodologically innovating within Bantu studies.