Nordic Journal of African Studies Vol. 35 No. 1 (2026): NJAS Special Issue: Auxiliary Verb Constructions in Bantu Languages

Special issue of Nordic Journal of African Studies Originally posted as individual articles at https://njas.fi/njas/issue/view/126 or https://doi.org/10.53228/njasaux This version features the full volume in one downloadable document. Article authors are listed as "other" contributors above. Contents Introduction to the Special Issue: Advancing the Study of Auxiliary Systems in Bantu 1Ponsiano Sawaka Kanijo, Rasmus Bernander, Eva-Marie Bloom Ström, Thera Marie Crane & Hilde Gunnink Auxiliaries and Analyticity in Northwestern Bantu 7Elisabeth J. Kerr Auxiliary Verb Constructions and Decategorialization in Gĩkũyũ 43Jens Fleischhauer & Claudius Patrick Kihara On the Morphology, Interpretation, and Development of the Kagulu Auxiliary ng’hali 75Leora Bar-el, Ponsiano Sawaka Kanijo & Malin Petzell BE Auxiliary Verb Constructions in Kihehe 101Robert Botne The Development of Negative ‘have’ Auxiliaries in the Bantu Languages of the Middle and Lower Zambezi 136 Aron Zahran, Maud Devos & Rozenn Guérois Southern Bantu Auxiliary Functions and Their Distributions 188Thera Marie Crane Dedicated Auxiliaries in Tswana (Bantu S31) 260Denis Creissels The Pragmatic Functions of the Auxiliary Verbs za ‘come’ and ya ‘go’ in isiXhosa 289Stefan Savić Auxiliary Stacking in Southern Bantu Languages 316Thera Marie Crane, Hannah Gibson & Kristina Riedel