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Browsing Research Articles (African Languages) by Author "Kawalya, Deo"
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Kawalya, Deo; De Schryver, Gilles-Maurice; Bostoen, Koen (NISC (Pty) Ltd and Informa UK Limited (trading as Taylor & Francis Group), 2019)This article reports on the analysis of three major markers of necessity in Luganda, i.e. the modal auxiliaries -téekw- and -lina and the verbal prefix -andi-. On the basis a 4-million-word corpus it is argued that, overall, ...
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Kawalya, Deo; Bostoen, Koen; De Schryver, Gilles-Maurice (John Benjamins Publishing, 2021-08)This article employs a 4-million-word diachronic corpus to examine how the expression of possibility has evolved in Luganda since the 1890s to the present, by focusing on the language’s three main potential markers -yînz-, ...
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Kawalya, Deo; Bostoen, Koen; De Schryver, Gilles-Maurice (John Benjamins Publishing, 2014)In this article the semantic evolution of the modal verb -sóból- in Luganda is examined through the analysis of a diachronic corpus spanning the last 120 years. It is shown that the usage frequency of this verb increased ...
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Kawalya, Deo; De Schryver, Gilles-Maurice; Bostoen, Koen (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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Kawalya, Deo; De Schryver, Gilles-Maurice (Buro van die WAT, 2013)In this article we explore the possibility of amalgamating the semasiological (i.e. alphabetical), onomasiological (i.e. conceptual) and visual approaches to dictionary compilation, here termed an alphaconceptual+ (i.e. ...
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Kawalya, Deo; De Schryver, Gilles-Maurice; Bostoen, Koen (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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