Code
01W02013
Duration
01 October 2013 → 30 September 2017
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Promotor
Fellow
Research disciplines
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Humanities
- Language studies
- Literary studies
Keywords
Bantu
corpus linguistics
Luganda
modality
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.