Abstract 1. Introduction 2. Verbal Reduplication in Bantu Languages 2.1. The Verb Structure 2.2. Chichewa (N31) 2.3. Ndebele(S40) 3. Analysis 3.1. Morphological Doubling Theory 3.2. Three Cross-linguistic Tendencies in Reduplication and Correspondence Theory 3.3. Motivations for Morphological Doubling Theory 3.4. Analysis in Morphological Doubling Theory 4. Conclusion References