Contribuição para o estudo dos morfemas do presente do indicativo no Emakhuwani

Abstract

This study entitled "Contribution to the Study of the Morphemes of the Present Indicative in Emakhuwani" is an approach from a didactic point of view to the teaching of "Lingua Bantu de Moçambique- Emakhuwa at the Eduardo Mondlane University (UEM). The teaching of Emakhuwa at UEM began in 1990, with various pedagogical shortcomings, including the lack of teaching materials specifically designed for teaching this language at any level, including university level. In this sense, the material adopted for this purpose consisted of some manuals produced mainly by missionaries who were interested in this language and who, in the case of the Emakhuwani variant under study, are the missionaries based at the Paul VI catechetical center, Anchilo, on the outskirts of the city of Nampula, among whom Father Prata, A.P. (1960) with the "Grammar of the Macua Language and its Dialects" and Father Centis, G (1985) with the "Makua Method" stand out. In studying the forms of the present tense, which formed the basis of the lessons on the different verb forms, we relied on the works of the two aforementioned authors. In the material mentioned above and elsewhere, there are some disparities in the presentation of the morphemes of the present tense, which raises some problems, both on a conceptual level and in terms of the methodological aspect of the teaching-learning process. On the one hand, there is the question of clarifying the marking of the present tense in emakhuwani, within the framework of the general theory of linguistics of the form or forms that should be considered basic. On the other hand, the question of which morphemes actually constitute idiosyncratic forms or derivations of the basic forms. It was in an attempt to help clarify these problems, and taking the experience of teaching the Emakhuwa language at UEM, that we chose to carry out this research, which focuses on the analysis of the morphemes marking the present tense of the indicative in simple sentences in Emakhuwani.(TRADUÇAO NOSSA)