Although ordinary dictionary writers do not take the risk of actually predic ting or anticipating new forms before they are attested, it is clear that there exist certain quite clear processes by which new words are born ...

The study stemmed from the need to understand the factors that have hindered quantitative church growth at Good News Africa Gospel Church (GNAGC) despite its location in a densely populated area in Nairobi. It became ...

The form mcfis one of the most important forms in Dholuo as evidenced by its various functions in both the pragmatic and morphological domains of the language. This work came out of the realization that it would be useful ...

The object of this paper is to introduce the nature of tense, aspect, and mode (TAM) in Lugwere, a Bantu language spoken in Eastern Uganda. Basic emphasis is on the morpho syntax relevant to the encoding of TAM notions ...

Not much has been written on the Kigiryama language. So far I have found nothing written on demonstratives. This project is about the study of demonstratives in Kigiryama. It is intended to describe the form and function ...

The present study focuses on some uses of the metarepresentation marker gu in the Budu language. Metarepresentation markers were first called interpretive markers by Blass (1989,1990), but have so far come to be marking ...

This paper describes and analyses many features of both the inflectional and the derivational verb morphology of Moro, a Kordofanian language spoken in the Nuba Mountains of central Sudan. Chapter 1 provides a brief ...

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 ...