Extensions that increase the valence of meteorological verbs

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The article's general objective is to explain the nature of the argument added to the meteorological verb by the concatenation of some verbal extensions. Methodologically, it is a qualitative approach, guided by the generative theoretical framework, in the Minimalist Program (PM) and, more particularly, by Chomsky (1995). The analyzed data were collected in the district of Pemba, Mozambique, in the Mwani-speaking community through a printed questionnaire. Therefore, they are production data of writing perception. The present article intended to answer the question according to which: what is the nature of the arguments added by the affixes in Kimwani? Data analysis shows that each extension projects its own functional core in which the extension is housed and projects its own specifier, in which the inserted arguments are configurationally assigned the thematic roles. Causative and applicative extension add yet another hierarchically different argument to the construction.