Valency: valency
Valency is a language specific feauture for Bamana, as a transitivity of a verb matters for expression of perfective aspect.
If a verb is transitive, an auxiliary is yé (negative equivalent tɛ́).
1: intransitive verb (1 argument)
Examples
- Fàntá yé dɔ́nkili dá. “Fanta sang.”
If a verb is intransitive, a suffix -ra is used. In the negation, there is still an auxiliary tɛ́.
- Fàntá jɔ́ra. “Fanta stood up.”
- Fàntá tɛ́ jɔ́. “Fanta did not stand up.”
2: transitive verb (2 arguments)
Examples
- O ye o dun. “This has eaten this.”
Valency in other languages: [bm] [koi] [kpv] [mdf] [myv] [sms]