Maasai
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This page is intended as a comprehensive bibliography of pseudocoordination in Maasai; for discussion, see Section 2.2.3.4 of Ross (2021). If you have any feedback or additional references to suggest, please contact me.
Status
- Description status: minimal information
- Current bibliographic coverage: incomplete
- Total references: 1
- Last updated: December 2022, based on dissertation (Dec. 2021), Section 2.2.3.4
Summary
In Maasai, the consecutive verb from appears to be etymologically derived from a conjunction 'and'. Compare also Nyamwezi for a similar etymology.
References
Caponigro, Ivano. 2003. Unbalanced coordination in Maasai. UCLA Working Papers in Linguistics 9. 1–16.