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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