Reflexive-Reciprocal Syncretism in Eastern Bantu Languages of Tanzania: Distribution and Origins
This paper presents an overview of the distribution of reflexive-reciprocal syncretism in Eastern Bantu languages spoken in Tanzania.Most Bantu languages encode reflexive and reciprocal constructions by means of two distinct verbal affixes.However, the Tanzanian Eastern Bantu languages under study have developed reflexive-reciprocal syncretism, in