Disentangling Conjoint , Disjoint , Metatony , Tone Cases , Augments , Prosody , and Focus in Bantu
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In (1a) the verb is final in its main clause and must therefore occur in the disjoint form, marked by the prefix -la-. In (1b), the answer to the question in (1a), the verb occurs in the conjoint form, which lacks the -laprefix, since the verb is presupposed and ‘cigarettes’ is in focus. A table of Chibemba conjoint/disjoint forms is provided from Hyman & Watters (1948: 251) in (2) from Hyman & Watters (1984: 251), drawing on Sharman & Meeussen (1955), Sharman 1956 and Givón (1972):
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