Annotating Tumbuka
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One of the challenges when glossing a Bantu language is the annotation of the verb's affixes since aggultination is one of the characteristics of Bantu languages so that a verb in Chichewa can be preceded by up tp 4 prefixes and followed by up to 3 suffixes. One way of representing verb affixation is in terms of a verb schema where the verb root is accompanied by slots (SLT) each of which hosts one or several affixes of a specific grammatical type
| (NEG) | SUBJ.AGR | TA1 | (OM) | ROOT | (DS) | (TA2) | FV |
| SLT1 | SLT2 | SLT3 | SLT4 | SLT5 | SLT6 | SLT7 |
MORE SOON :=)