Nominalization in Chichewa

Abstract

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 being he conclusion. Chapter one deals with overall information about Chichewa and the methodology use in this work. The second chapter has to do with the Action Nominalization processes. The third chapter has to do with participant nominalization, and the fourth chapter provides analysis of how nominalization interacts with other components (Tense, Aspect, and Mood) of the sentence. The findings reveal that Chichewa makes use of quite a number of nominalization processes that occur even in the discourse. The evidence is given by the Chichewa text in the appendix.