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  • Serial Verb Constructions In Yoruba 
    Mbamalu, Abiola (2014-05-07)
  • Relative clause in Kinyarwanda 
    Nyiramahoro, Clene (2014-05-07)
  • Nominalization in Chichewa 
    Matanda, Ezra (2014-05-07)
    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 ...
  • The Valence adjusting operations in Lugwere 
    Mubbala, Samuel (2014-05-07)
    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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • The relative clause in Kiembu 
    Barnard, Helga (2014-05-08)
    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 ...
  • Tense Aspect and Mood in Mayogo. 
    Sebu, Mapuma Gilbert (2014-05-09)
    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 ...
  • The use of particle Ne in the Dinka language 
    Liol, Ramadan Chan (2014-05-09)
  • 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 Particle No in Zarma : A relevance Theory Perspective 
    Grigson, Jetta Elizabeth (2014-05-12)
    This paper examines the role of the particle no in Zarma discourse. What is theoretically interesting about this particle is that one might see it as having two differing or contrasting functions. It seems to function ...
  • Nominalization Structure in Kikuyu 
    Wafula, Lois Mwihaki (2014-05-13)
    The 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 ...
  • The Expression of Negation in Nuni 
    Kadio, Abou Cornelille (2014-05-13)
  • Nominalization in Olusuba :process and function. 
    Okumu, Jeremiah Ochieng (2014-05-14)
    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 ...
  • Relativization in Kom 
    Kawuldim, Kimbi Paul (2014-05-14)
    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 ...
  • Word Formation Processes in Mina 
    Azoti, Adakouvi V.K (2014-05-14)
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • Relative clauses in Maragoli 
    Jumba, Jedidah (2014-05-14)
    In the course of my studies at NEGST, it has come to my attention that very little linguistics work has been done on the Maragoli language. This study is on the relative clause as one of the grammatical categories needing ...
  • 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)

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