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Item Tense and aAspect in the Kikuyu Speech form of the Kiambu district : a discussion of Indicative Sentences including Negative Past Constructions(2014-05-19) Robertson, Joanna ReillyItem A relevance-based analysis of ATI : a Kikuyu Particle(2014-05-15) Gathumbi, Joseph WeruThis study is to explore the use of the particle at;in Kikuyu language. It has been inspired by the call of Blass in her book "that other so-called 'hearsay' particles might be usefully re-examined to see whether they ... occur in other than true 'hearsay' constructions, and should be reanalyzed as markers of interpretive use" (Blass 1990, 95). In this study, I will seek to show and explain the use of the particle at;first on the traditional basis and then Relevance theoretical basis. Only after this, that I will give the conclusion that will be based on the plausible analysis. It is my hope that this study will contribute in the current much talked about hearsay particle and interpretive use, and more so somehow help in the call of Bible translation.Item Nominalization Structure in Kikuyu(2014-05-13) Wafula, Lois MwihakiThe 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 descriptions are not exhaustive of all the processes and more work could be done on nominalization in Kikuyu.Item The complement clauses of verbs of speech and cognition in Kikuyu(2014-05-08) Muchesia, Mary Wambui KamauThis 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 I have collected from my knowledge of the language as a native speaker and by using a narrative text taken from a Kikuyu first lessons book. It will be shown that Kikuyu verbs of speech and cognition operate like other Complement-Taking Predicates (CTP), as they allow complementizers [but... there are some differences, e.g. it is not possible for the subject of the embedded clause to be marked as an Object Concord marker in the main verb if that verb is a verb of cognition]. However, this research is not exhaustive and more work remains to be done on the subj ect.