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Robert Botne
Robert Botne
Professor Emeritus, Linguistics
Affiliate, African Studies Program
botner@iu.edu
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Ph.D., Northwestern University, 1981
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African languages
Bantu
tense/aspect/modality systems
morphology
comparative linguistics
lexical semantics of verbs
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