Basic conjugation of the Mbalanhu verb

Abstract

In this article the morphology and morphophonology of the basic conjugational categories of the Mbalanhu verb are described. These categories are mood (those inflectionally marked properties of the verb that relate clauses to possible worlds), simple tense (as opposed to compound tense; simple tense is regarded as those inflectional properties of the verb that indicate deixis between coding time and event time), and aspect (those agglutinating properties of the Mbalanhu verb that signal the internal temporal structure of the event described by the verb).