De la structure du verbe Bantu: Valeurs du monème -i- en bàlòŋ (Bantu A 13)

Abstract

It is known that the morpheme of past, in several Bantu languages, is represented by the inflected suffix -i. The
presence of i- in the future, for example, is a surprising fact even if the mooring of this morpheme is different from that of the past. It is nevertheless the case in bàlòŋ (Bantu A13). The future here seems to be intermittent. It consists of a high tone morpheme which appears before the "actualisateur" and, the temporal morpheme i- directly bound to the verbal base.