Thesis(TS): Recent submissions

  • Nominalization Strategies in Bete 
    Goprou, Carlos Djaki (2014-05-16)
    The objective of this work was twofold. Firstly, I was to describe an African language as far as the issue of nominalization is concerned, using methods of descriptive linguistics. Secondly, I was to see how the findings ...
  • Tense, Aspect and Modality in Lelemi Narrative discourse 
    Divine, Mununkum (2014-05-16)
    The purpose ofthis study was an attempt to document Lelemi tense, aspect and mood. There are primers and post- primer literature in the language that are being used in adult literacy programme in the Lelemi community. ...
  • Verb Structure in Kitembo 
    Hand - Jinga, Kabucungu (2014-05-16)
    The goal of Bible translation is to help the people to have the Bible in the language which speaks to their hearts. The Gospel of Luke in Kitembo has been published and is being used in the churches and the Tembo Christian ...
  • 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 Structure and Function of Ideophones in the SUBA Language 
    Mattah, Naphtaly P. O (2014-05-15)
    After my seven (7) years of reducing the Suba language into written from and translating the Bible into the language it came to the realization of the team that there were certain concepts which would not be expressed ...
  • Tense, Mood and Aspect in the Ngbandi language 
    Mbagesi, Crispin (2014-05-15)
  • Derivation of Nouns ( Nominalizations ) from Toposa Verbs 
    Kadanya, James Lokuuda (2014-05-15)
  • Relative clause in Mada 
    Rhila, Ezekiel Ahmadu (2014-05-15)
    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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • Tenses in Masikoro 
    Rembohony, Clovis (2014-05-15)
    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 Pronoun in Dogon 
    Teme, Dagalou (2014-05-15)
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • Word Formation Processes in Mina 
    Azoti, Adakouvi V.K (2014-05-14)
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • Daasanach FocusStrategies and their Pragmatic functions 
    Achinya, Jackson L (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 ...
  • 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)

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