ABSTRACT
This follows as an enlargement to a previous sentence. There is one further example where the meaning is that of additioning but the structure is not:
29. . .. anafanya yeye kwa kawaida yake II yaani ya Pff Pff Pff Pff. (257)
' ... and he does as usual, that is hee-haw, hee-haw.' Accepting that stories are about action rather than description, I think
nevertheless it is still surprising how very little description there is at this level. Adjectives there are, but not many. It will also be noted that the few clauses of this type that do occur have the relative verb form in them (alipokuwa akichanjachanja, anayeshughulika, and aliyemzaa). Nowhere in the entire text does the amba-relative occur! (i.e. There are no non-defining relative clauses). Conditioning This form of dependence is considerably more frequent than additioning in this text, as might be expected. Two examples of p x clauses function as whole sentences, i.e.:
30. Kama ilivyo kawaida yake. (281) 'As was his custom.' J 1. Akiletewa chakula. (223) 'Having food brought to him.'
