The objective of this work was to describe Nominalization in Chichewa, an African language in the Bantu family, using methods of descriptive linguistics. The study is organized into four main chapters, the fifth chapter ...

About one third of Olusuba nouns are nominals derived from other lexical categories such as .verbs, adjectives and adverbials. This process, known as nominalization, and its reverse process of denominalization are crucial ...

The main strategy of nominalization in Kikuyu is morphological. The language uses the noun class markers (prefixes) and various suffixes to achieve nominalization. This paper has described eight of the processes. These ...