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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.
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To Cite this Article: Onyango, O. F. (2015). A Minimalist Program Morph Syntactic Analysis of the Use of Aspect in Igikuria Language. International Journal of Academic Research in Progressive Education and Development, 4(3), 45–56.
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