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  • Acceptability of Swahili Translations in Kenya : The Case of Kiswahili Union Version, Habari Njema and Neno New Testament 
    Omollo, Maurice Onyango (2014-05-23)
  • Alienable and Inalienable Possession in Dholuo 
    Lang, Emese (2014-05-12)
    In his book A Grammar of Kenya Luo (Dholuo) (1993) Tucker explores the different types of genitives he found in the language. He attempts to differentiate between alienable and inalienable genitive constructions, basing ...
  • The Applicative construction and Object symmetry in Kiswahili and Maragoli 
    Murrell, Paul (2014-05-14)
    Many Bantu languages have recently been used in studying syntactic theory and there is much debate concerning double objects in applicative constructions and the symmetry, or lack of it, which can be observed operating ...
  • Causative constructions in Kambaata 
    Wachemo, Tessema (2014-05-20)
    In this work my concern is to describe some linguistic expressions of causation and a useful starting point of the causative construction situation or event as a whole in Kambaata. This description is being thought as ...
  • A Comparative Study of Causatives in Bantu 
    Briony Murrel, Josephine (2014-05-14)
    This study will investigate causative formation in three major Bantu languages; KiSwahili, Kikuyu and Lingala. These three languages are from different subgroups of Bantu, and thus one would expect to find differences ...
  • Complement clauses in Kifuliiru 
    Busongoye, Ndakamaro (2014-05-16)
    God alone is the perfect ruler and his power is dependent upon none. Human beings who possess power can rightly exercise it only if they acknowledge that their power is delegated. God made it clear to the Israelites, ...
  • The complement clauses of verbs of speech and cognition in Kikuyu 
    Muchesia, Mary Wambui Kamau (2014-05-08)
    This study discusses complement clauses of verbs of speech and cognition in Kikuyu. The aim is to look at what types of complement clauses these verbs can take. I have achieved this by looking at some Kikuyu data, which ...
  • Daasanach FocusStrategies and their Pragmatic functions 
    Achinya, Jackson L (2014-05-14)
  • Derivation of Nouns ( Nominalizations ) from Toposa Verbs 
    Kadanya, James Lokuuda (2014-05-15)
  • The Derivational Morphology of the Maa Noun 
    Kotikash, Leonard L (2014-05-19)
    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 ...
  • An Examination of factors Affecting Church Growth of Good News Africa Gospel Church in Nairobi, Kenya 
    Ouma, James (2014-05-21)
    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 Expression of Negation in Nuni 
    Kadio, Abou Cornelille (2014-05-13)
  • The Form ma' in Dholuo 
    Sana, Clement Juma (2014-05-16)
    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 Genitive construction of Possesssion in Amharic 
    Getahun, Girma (2014-05-27)
    This paper presents the morphosyntactic markers of the genitive construction in Amharic. In Amharic, genitive markers are bound morphemes which are either prefixed or suffixed to the noun they modify. The genitive ...
  • Grammaticalization and Discourse use of Tense, Aspect, & Mode in Lugwere 
    Nzogi, Richard Kiffali (2014-05-16)
    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 ...
  • Imperatives and Hortatives in Vwanji 
    Mahali, Ahimidiwe Zablon (2014-05-22)
    Imperative mood is the form of the verb used in issuing direct commands or orders and they are restricted to second person in both singular and plural. Hortatives are verbs which may be used to encourage people to do ...
  • Kigiryama Demonstratives 
    Tsangwa, Chome Edward (2014-05-16)
    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 ...
  • Locative construction in Kiswahili : a Pragmatic approach 
    Casson, Sarah Helen (2014-05-15)
    In Swahili, locative nouns carrying the suffix -ni, and locative applicative constructions both exhibit non-prototypical characteristics from a grammatical perspective. Considered from a pragmatic perspective, we see ...
  • The Metarepresentation Marker gu : a Budu Particle 
    Danga, Anzetaka (2014-05-21)
    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 ...
  • Moro Noun Classes 
    Adeldong, Israel Yohanna Angelo (2014-05-22)
    Moro Noun Class is classified by a prefix system, in which the singular and plural prefixes of the nouns are the bases of classification. In this project I have attempted as a native speaker to do the work on my language ...

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