Pub Date : 2023-12-22DOI: 10.1080/02572117.2023.2294659
Hossam Mohamed Ramadan
This article focuses on the causative morpheme in Kiswahili. It notes that the causative morpheme has many allomorphs. The study explains the relationship between the verb root and the causative fo...
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Pub Date : 2023-12-22DOI: 10.1080/02572117.2023.2294405
Burgert Senekal, Susan Brokensha
Despite having 12 officially recognised languages (with the addition of South African Sign Language on 3 May 2023), South Africa’s education system is becoming increasingly monolingual. The current...
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Pub Date : 2023-12-22DOI: 10.1080/02572117.2023.2294594
Devet Goodness
This article examines the syntax and morphosyntax of questions in the Shinyiha language. It surveys the different sentence structures and strategies Shinyiha speakers use in forming questions. It p...
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Pub Date : 2023-12-22DOI: 10.1080/02572117.2023.2294648
Hambaba Jimaima, Susan Matukuto, Gabriel Simungala
In this article, we use lexical morphology to account for names of the supreme being in Bemba, a Bantu language spoken in Zambia as rendered by various translators in the Christian holy book, the B...
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Pub Date : 2023-12-22DOI: 10.1080/02572117.2023.2294601
Medadi E Ssentanda, Ruth S Wenske
This article is a historical investigation of language-in-education policy in Uganda. It compares educational reports from the 1890s to the 2000s with research from cultural history to trace how la...
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Pub Date : 2023-12-22DOI: 10.1080/02572117.2023.2294605
Nyikelani Davis Mabasa
Indigenous music and dance can help one to vividly fathom the behaviour, values and morals of particular cultural groups, who perform its music and dance for various reasons. The indigenous music a...
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Pub Date : 2023-12-22DOI: 10.1080/02572117.2023.2294418
Sebolelo Mokapela
This article seeks to raise awareness of the impact – positive and negative – of practices that are perceived to be contributing towards the realisation of multilingualism in South Africa. The 1996...
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The article seeks to provide a critical analysis of selected proverbs based on the people domain in the isiZulu drama, Ngavele ngasho (‘I told you so’), by David Mkhize. The proverbs are sampled pu...
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This article explores the different uses of colourful and military language in the commentaries of isiXhosa football reporters, and highlights an interesting relationship between football and war i...
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Pub Date : 2023-12-22DOI: 10.1080/02572117.2023.2295755
Nichodamus Robinson
This article examines the extent to which the changing morphological and phonological properties of the -ile suffix illuminates change in the genetic language relationships among four languages in ...
本文探讨了-ile后缀形态和语音属性的变化在多大程度上揭示了...
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