Tense and Aspect in Ateso

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Focusing on the Ateso language, this book presents a comprehensive analysis of tense and aspect, exploring their interrelation with tone within the Eastern Nilotic language family. It investigates tense and aspect marking, their distribution, and their occurrence in basic sentence structures. Additionally, it assesses the applicability of the Checking theory from the Minimalist program to Ateso's morphological forms. The book serves as a valuable resource for linguists, facilitating comparisons between Ateso and other mutually intelligible Nilotic languages.