A Minimalist Program Morph syntactic Analysis of the use of aspect in Igikuria Language

Author(s): Ong’ayo Francis Onyango

This research gives a general overview of the aspect in Igikuria language. Generally aspect is divided into perfective and imperfective. ‘The imperfective is further divided into habitual and continuous’ (Comrie 1976:25). The continuous is further divided into progressive and non progressive aspects. In Igikuria language, the aspect is divided into perfective and imperfective. The perfective is divided into perfect and perfective. The imperfective is divided into progressive, habitual and repetitive .The feature checking of the Minimalist Program is shown to demonstrate how movement checks inflectional features of aspects for their correctness against their syntactic position in the constituency of a sentence.

Perfective aspect, imperfective aspect, repetitive aspect, habitual aspect, progressive aspect. Movements.

Full Text: PDF DOI: 10.6007/IJARPED/v4-i4/1879     Pages: [44-53]