A study of the auxiliary in Sesotho

The Auxiliary is a sadly neglected field of study in Southern African languages. The study investigates the syntactic and semantic behaviour of Auxiliaries in Sesotho. Having establi,shed that there is a category AUX in Sesotho, we then developed a descriptive framework in which auxiliaries in Sesotho participate. In this framework we posit as basic the three grammatical-semantic categories of verb phrases, namely, Tense, Aspect and Modality.

Autorentext

Sol Chaphole studied English, Linguistics and Sesotho at the University of the North. He holds an MA in Theoretical Linguistics from Reading University in the United Kingdom and a PhD in African Linguistics from the University of Cape Town.