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Annotating Tumbuka

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One of the challenges when glossing a Bantu language is the annotation of the verb's affixes since aggultination is one of the characteristics of Bantu languages so that a verb in Chichewa can be preceded by up tp 4 prefixes and followed by up to 3 suffixes. One way of representing verb affixation is in terms of a verb schema where the verb root is accompanied by slots (SLT) each of which hosts one or several affixes of a specific grammatical type

(NEG) SUBJ.AGR TA1 (OM) ROOT (DS) (TA2) FV
SLT1 SLT2 SLT3 SLT4 SLT5 SLT6 SLT7

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