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A Phonological Study of the Tegem Language

Author: Ali, Ahmed Sosal Altayeb Mohammed Date: 2018 This study describes the phonological structure of the Tegem language, a little-known Niger-Kordofanian language spoken by around 2000 people in Sudan. The research follows the basic linguistic theory in identifying the segments, investigating ... Read more
A study of the historical and linguistic factors that shaped Modern Spanish

Author: Bentley, Emma Date: 2021 Based on the perspectives and findings of descriptive linguists and typologists, this thesis presents a largely discursive qualitative analysis of how the morphosyntactic changes in Spanish, since its emergence as a separate code from Latin, ... Read more
Afrikaans-English in the Western Cape : a descriptive socio-linguistic investigation

Author: Watermeyer, Susan Jean Date: 1993 I have attempted to give a broad description of the variety of English used by first-language (White) Afrikaans-speakers in the Western Cape. The first chapter outlines the aims of the thesis with respect to the study of English as a world ... Read more
Applying Vendler's verbal categories to Mandarin Chinese and issues in telicity

Author: Shih, Yuan-Lung Date: 2006 Includes bibliographical references. Read more
Aspects of the phonology of Sukwa: an optimality theoretic analysis

Author: Mtenje, Atikonda Akuzike Date: 2011 Phonological studies of Bantu languages have continued to be an area of investigation for many scholars over the years. These studies have discussed the language's sound patterns syllable structures, phonological processes and suprasegmental ... Read more
Aspects of the syntax of Spanish nominal expressions

Author: Raffray, Claudine Date: 2001 This study deals with aspects of the grammatical structure of nominal expressions in Spanish, examined within the broad frame of notions, principles and assumptions constituting the Minimalist Program (MP). A central concern of the study is ... Read more
Aspiration in South African Indian English : emerging phonological norms in new dialect formation

Author: Delbridge, Shelly Anne Date: 2006 Includes bibliographical references. Read more
The attitudes of Tigre-speaking students in Eritrea towards studying Arabic and Tigrinya as second languages at school : a case study

Author: Weldemichael, Tedros Hagos Date: 2003 Bibliography: leaves 87-91. Read more
Challenging common sense about nonsense : an integrational approach to schizophrenic language behaviour

Author: Poole, Jennifer Amy Forbes Date: 2009 Due to certain fundamental flaws, orthodox linguistics has not succeeded in producing a coherent account of 'schizophrenic language' - the host of symptoms that are alternatively characterised as evidence of formal thought disorder or labelled ... Read more
Changing sociolinguistic identities of young, middle-class 'Coloured' people in post-apartheid Cape Town

Author: Dennis, Tracey Lynn Date: 2008 This study set out to examine the sociolinguistics of social change amongst a group of young, middle-class coloured people who were educated in a predominantly white school environment. The demise of the apartheid system in the early 1990s ... Read more
Code-Switching among Bilingual Speakers of Cape Muslim Afrikaans and South African English in the Bo-Kaap, Cape Town

Author: Cozien, Christine Date: 2020 The Bo-Kaap is traditionally a Cape Muslim Afrikaans-speaking community, and sociohistorically it is particularly relevant to the development of Afrikaans at the Cape (Davids 2011, Mahida 1993). The Cape Muslim Afrikaans spoken in the Bo-Kaap ... Read more
Code-switching, Structural change and Convergence: A study of Sesotho in contact with English in Lesotho

Author: Semethe, Mpho Maboitumelo Date: 2019 This study investigates whether code-switching practices among Sesotho-English bilinguals promote convergence between Sesotho and English. First, the study identifies different types and patterns of code-switching between Sesotho and English ... Read more
A comparative study of the Morphosyntaz and Phonetics of Town Bemba and Standard Bemba of the Copperbelt Zambia

Author: Kabinga, Moonde Date: 2010 For many years now, the status of Town Bemba (TB) has been fuzzy in its descriptions, as no specific framework has been used in characterising the language variety. TB has been regarded as an urban variety spoken in the townships of the ... Read more
Compounding in Namagowab and English: (exploring meaning creation in compounds)

Author: Caroline, Kloppert Date: 2016 This essay investigates compounding in Namagowab and English, which belong to two widely divergent groups of languages, the Khoesan and Indo-European, respectively. The first motive is to investigate how and why new words are created from ... Read more
Connectives in Igbo: A syntactic analysis of connectives in the Standard Igbo and the Nsukka dialect

Author: Ifyede, Henrietta Chimto Date: 2020 This study provides a description of connectives in Igbo, focusing on the Standard Igbo and Nsukka dialect varieties. These connectives in Igbo are realised mainly through conjunctions and a few adverbials and previous works on connectives ... Read more
A critical evaluation of recent research into semantic development in child language

Author: Pickerill, Roy Thomas Alan Date: 1988 This study examines critically recent research in the area of child language development, with an emphasis on research into semantic development. Various research articles, in particular, are analysed, with particular attention being given ... Read more
Examining Evidence for Passive in Yoruba

Author: Balogun, Bunmi Date: 2021 The construction of English passives is formed by placing the noun which denotes the subject of the action in the sentence to the object position and then making the object of the sentence dislocate to the subject position. Other transformations ... Read more
Focusing and diffusion in 'Cape Flats English': a sociophonetic study of three vowels

Author: Brown, Justin Date: 2012 This research contributes to the wider fields of sociophonetics and the social dialectology of English in South Africa. The study looks at three vowel sets; GOOSE, BATH and KIT taken from Wells (1982). The study was designed to identify and ... Read more
The invisible hand and sound change

Author: Sulik, J Date: 2004 Includes bibliography. Read more
Language acquisition in Setswana speaking infants aged 8 to 18 months

Author: Yalala, Sefela Date: 2022 Little is known about the early acquisition of Setswana, with only a few small-scale studies of children under three-years-old. To address this gap, teams from southern Africa are adapting the MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventory ... Read more

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