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Research Articles (African Languages): Recent submissions
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(Routledge, 2019)Indigenous societies that are steeped in patriarchy have various avenues through which they deal with the abuse characteristic of relations in some of these communities. One such route is songs which allow women to voice ...
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(NISC (Pty) Ltd and Informa UK Limited (trading as Taylor & Francis Group), 2018)In this article, a comparison is made of the expression of possibility in West Nyanza Bantu languages in order to reconstruct the origins of Luganda’s two most frequent possibility markers, viz. the near-synonymous auxiliaries ...
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(Routledge, 2018)Being a multilingual country rich in culture and diversity, South Africa has residents who use a variety of the 11 official languages for daily communication. Multilingual communication occurs especially in hospitals and ...
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(De Gruyter, 2018)This article aims to give a semantic study of the reflexes of one specific tense/aspect form, namely the so-called *-a-B-a construction, in a cluster of about 40-odd Kikongo language varieties spoken in a wide area around ...
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(NISC (Pty) Ltd and Informa UK Limited (trading as Taylor & Francis Group), 2018-06)Ka lebaka la gore ditiragalo tša phatose di fela di hlakahlakanywa bobading le bosekaseking bja masetlapelo, taodišwane ye e yo ahlaahla kanegelo ya phatose ge e nepiša mohuta wa sengwalo sa kwešišano sa go lebana le ...
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(Buro van die WAT, 2017)This article introduces a prototype of a writing (and learning) assistant for verbal relative clauses of the African language Sepedi, accessible from within a dictionary or from a word processor. It is an example of how a ...
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(Buro van die WAT, 2017)Hierdie artikel het ten doel om 'n perspektief te bied op Afrikataalleksikografie se reaksie op ontwikkelings in die internasionale leksikografiepraktyk met betrekking tot nuwe tendense en veranderinge wat hoofsaaklik deur ...
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(Elsevier, 2018-04)This article offers a synchronic and diachronic analysis of the use and meaning of the verbal prefix -andi- in the Great Lakes Bantu language Luganda (JE15). On the basis of a text corpus of 4 million tokens, we show that ...
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(AOSIS OpenJournals, 2017-01-30)BACKGROUND : The PA skills of phonological blending and segmentation and auditory word discrimination relate directly to literacy and may be weak in English second language (EL2) learners. In South Africa, literacy skills ...
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Language contact and linguistic change : the case of Afrikaans and English influence on isiNdebele (Routledge, 2016-06)Adoption is an unavoidable type of linguistic behaviour that occurs when two or more languages are in a state of contact with each other. Adoption is the introduction of single words or short frozen phrases from one variety ...
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(Cambridge University Press, 2016-08)Lusoga is an interlacustrine Bantu language spoken in the eastern part of Uganda in the region of Busoga, which is surrounded by the Victoria Nile in the west, Lake Kyoga in the north, the River Mpologoma in the east and ...
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(De Gruyter, 2016-10)La présente étude concerne l’évolution sémantique et formelle d’un adverbe épistémique du kirundi, umeengo/umeenga, les deux formes constituant des variantes libres. Elle est une des premières études s’inscrivant en ...
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(Buro van die WAT, 2016)This article evaluates the lexicographic value of multilingual dictionaries. Dictionaries covering three or more languages spoken in South Africa are taken as a case in point. An attempt will be made to reflect on their ...
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(Peeters Online Journals, 2013)This article offers an in‑depth historical‑comparative linguistic account of the origin and etymology of ngangula. This term is not only a widespread blacksmith term in the Lower Congo region, but also a traditional royal ...
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(Routledge, 2016-06)This article offers a distributional corpus analysis of the Northern Sotho noun and gender system. The aim is twofold: first, to assess whether the existing descriptions of the noun class system in Northern Sotho are ...
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(LitNet, 2016-05)Hierdie artikel behandel die oordrag van betekenis in literêre vertaling en lewer verslag oor 'n studie wat die vertaling van dialek en register in The long journey of Poppie Nongena (Elsa Joubert 1980), die Engelse vertaling ...
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(Elsevier, 2016-05)We have undertaken an in-depth transcriptome analysis of adipogenesis in human adipose-derived stromal cells (ASCs) induced to differentiate into adipocytes in vitro. Gene expression was assessed on days 1, 7, 14 and ...
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(Plus 50 Media (Pty) Ltd., 2016-04)Easter is a time of reflection about what we as Christians believe in. It is also a time that many of us have an opportunity to go to our rural villages to see loved ones and to attend national denominational conferences. ...
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Cattle and their colours : a synchronic investigation of cattle colour terminology in Northern Sotho (Routledge, 2015-12)In Northern Sotho, a separate colour lexicon is distinguished, containing terms which are believed to be used exclusively as colour terms to describe not only the colours, but also the colour patterning found among ...
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(Nordic Association of African Studies, 2015)In a previous article (Faaß et al, 2012), a first attempt was made at documenting and encoding morphemic units of two South African Bantu languages, i.e. Northern Sotho and Zulu, with the aim of describing and storing ...
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