The present paper attempts to give a basic description of the formation of relative clauses in Kiembu, a Bantu language of Kenya. As an SVO language, Kiembu employs postnominal relative clauses. The language uses three ...

In the process of Mada New Testament translation, there was a debate on several occasions during the testing and reviewing process as whether to include some grammatical particles in the translation or not. Some of these ...

The main strategy for clause subordination in Kom is in the use of the relative clause. One matrix clause can have more than three subordinate clauses embedded in it, all being relative clauses. This phenomenon warrants ...

In this study I describe discourse features found in KSL persuasive hortatory texts. I consider if KLS uses inductive or deductive argumentation in this genre of texts. Inter-sentential linkage is investigated to determine ...

This study is an investigation of tense, aspect and mood in Mayogo. Its purpose is mainly to describe my understanding of the form, tense, aspect and mood (TAM) and to see their function in discourse in order to help the ...

Tense, aspect and mood playa crucial 'role in grammar and discourse of a language. This study focuses on the distribution of tense and aspect in Lunyole grammar and narrative discourse. Lunyole is one of those languages ...

The purpose of this study is an attempt to provide a description of a limited topic in Masikoro grammar. Up to now a few linguists have written about this language, basically on discourse, stories, and proverbs. Very ...

The object of this paper is to make a brief investigation of valence adjusting operations in the Lugwere language. The paper examines those operations which increase and those which decrease valence in the clause in ...