Kosogorova Maria Aleksandrovna, PhD, Institute of Asian and African Studies, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Department of African Studies; Institute of Linguistics RAS, African Languages Department. E-mail: maria.kosogorova@gmail.com
The article speaks about the numerous verbal forms in the Fula language (Atlantic family) and the best way to translate them into typologically different languages, such as Indo-European. The verbal forms discussed are predicates, participles and recently grammaticalized auxiliaries.
Keywords:
Fula language; morphology; semantics; typology; aspect systems