O tempo verbal na língua copi: a morfofonologia da marca do passado recente perfectivo

Abstract

The present work focuses on one of the Bantu languages ​​of Mozambique, the Copi language. Its main objective is to study the tense of the aforementioned language, trying to analyze the morphophonology that exists behind the mark of the recent past in the same language. The study was based on a corpus collected from an informant, speaker of the language in reference, born and resident in Madendere, a fact that determined the choice of the variant to be analyzed. The study is organized into four chapters, namely: the introduction, which encompasses the points about the Copi language, the work objectives, the methodology, the problem, the hypotheses and the work organization; the second chapter refers to the bibliographical review, which seeks to review the concepts as well as previous studies related to the topic in question; the third chapter presents the analysis of the data collected, briefly presenting the time spent in a general way before analyzing the main point of the study; and finally we have the fourth chapter that presents the conclusions reached with. the work and some recommendations for future work