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Syntactic valency and contextual specialization: the case of -shika in Swahili1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 December 2009

Torben Andersen  and
Yahya Ali Omar
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In Johnson's Standard Swahili-English dictionary (1939) the meaning of the verb-Shika is described as follows:

hold fast, take hold of, keep hold on, seize, grasp, keep. A common word with a wide range of application, e.g. (1) get hold on, press hard on, be on the mind, put in difficulties; (2) keep a hold on, persevere in; (3) hold to, keep to, observe, remember, attend to, obey; (4) determine, resolve, make up the mind to; (5) also as Intrans. have a hold, prevail, be urgent.

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Bulletin of SOAS , Volume 49 , Issue 2 , June 1986 , pp. 364 - 376
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Copyright © School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London 1986

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