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Morph Syntactic Analysis of the use of Tense in Igikuria Language: A Minimalist Program

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Tense is marked in Igikuria verb. This research gives a general overview of tense. The Igikuria tense is looked into, which is divided into past and non-past. The past is further divided into immediate, recent and distant past. The non past is divided into the present and the future, and the distant future. The feature checking of the Minimalist Program will be shown to demonstrate how movement checks inflectional features for their correctness against their syntactic position in the constituency of a sentence.