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A miniresource grammar for Tswana (and Zulu)

Laurette Marais and Laurette Pretorius

Tswana● Southern Bantu language, Sotho-Tswana-group

● SVO

● Agglutinative

● Verb prefixes written disjunctively

● Verb suffixes written conjunctively

● Morphotactics (morpheme sequences)

● Alternation rules (sound changes)

Tswana - noun

Tswana - verb

Tswana - concordial agreement

Tswana - mood

Tswana - tense, polarity, aspect

Tswana - GF parameters

Tswana - GF noun phrase

Tswana - GF verb phrase

Tswana - GF verb phrase

Tswana - GF clause

Tswana - GF clause

Tswana - GF clause

Tswana - GF clause

Tswana - examplesthe young man runs he runs

Tswana - examplesthe young man sees themthe young man sees the lions

Tswana - examplesthe young man will

see themthe young man

saw them

Tswana - examplesthe young man sees me the young man saw me

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