Eating, praying, but not "loving"? Actionality in Kutu and Kwere

This project builds on our previous research by looking into actionality. The goals of the new project are to

(i) document and analyse how events unfold in time (“actionality”) in Kutu and Kwere, two closely related under-documented and endangered Bantu language varieties spoken in central Tanzania,

(ii) assess the extent to which theories of actionality account for the range of systems in these and other Bantu languages, and

(iii) develop a data collection tool that can be used to conduct comparative research on actionality not only in Bantu languages, but in languages across the world.