Discourse Pragmatics and Semantic Categorization: The Case of Negation and Tense-Aspect with Special Reference to Swahili (Discourse Perspectives on Grammar, 1)

CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SOCIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE brings to students, researchers and practitioners in all of the social and language-related sciences carefully selected book-length publications dealing with sociolinguistic theory, methods, findings and applications. It approaches the study of language in society in its broadest sense, as a truly international and interdisciplinary field in which various approaches, theoretical and empirical, supplement and complement each other. The series invites the attention of linguists, language teachers of all interests, sociologists, political scientists, anthropologists, historians etc. to the development of the sociology of language. Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter one. Why "correspondences" fail Chapter two. The Swahili system of occurrence Chapter three. The affirmative system Chapter four. The negative system Chapter five. Conclusion Bibliography Swahili references Name index Subject index