Exploring the ‘conditional mood’ in Northern Sotho

From conditionality to modality in Luganda (Bantu, JE15): A synchronic and diachronic corpus analysis of the verbal prefix - andi -

“…Apart from the previously cited work of Saloné on Haya and Swahili, dedicated studies of conditionals in Bantu only existed until recently for Northern Sotho (S32), spoken in South Africa (Lepota, 2002;Taljard and Louwrens, 2003). A 2017 special issue on conditional constructions in African languages also includes articles on the Bantu languages Ndendeule (N101) from Tanzania , Cuwabo (P34) from Mozambique (Guérois, 2017) and Swahili from Eastern Africa , the latter study being based on the annotated Helsinki Corpus of Swahili.…”

Rabadia Ratsatsha: Studies in African language, literature, linguistics, translation and lexicography

“…Groenewald (1973; 1975a; 1975b; 1977; 1978; 1983; 1989) ... will in due time be recognized as one of the several truly great novels to have been produced in Africa during this century. (Groenewald 1983: 5) It is therefore not unexpected that Groenewald would Introduction lthough the existence of the conditional mood of Northern Sotho has been recognized in work done by Vercueil (1981), Barnard (1987), Groenewald (s.a.), Van Wyk and Bushney (1989), Lepota (2001) and Lepota (2002), it has never been the focal point of research. A detailed analysis of the tonal patterns of this mood has consequently yet to be published in Northern Sotho.…”