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A Functional Analysis Atĩ And Its Variants (Atĩrĩrĩ And Atĩrĩ) As Complementisers And Various Discourse Markers
(University of Nairobi, 2017)
Complementisers are important categories for linguistic theories in description of syntactic structures. In generative grammar theories, the complementiser phrase is an indispensable functional category. Gĩkũyũ, a Bantu ...
The challenges facing German studies programmes in Kenya: a case study of the University of Nairobi
(2015)
The German Studies (GS) programme has been offered since 1981 at the
University of Nairobi (UoN), 1986 at Kenyatta University (KU), and 2009 at
Moi University. By now, the programme should have come of age and be
producing ...
The Gender Variable In The Meanings Assigned To Three English Address Terms By Teachers In Kenya
(UoN, 2018)
This paper investigated the range of meanings assigned to the address terms madam, boss and my dear in English usage in Kenya, with gender as an independent variable. It started from three working hypotheses: a) both men ...
Topic, Focus, And Word Order In The Kiswahili Clause
(University of Nairobi, 2018)
The Kiswahili language has been classified as an SVO language. This paper argues that the SVO word order is dependent on the occurrence of both the subject and object overtly. When the two do not surface overtly, the word ...
Gender Identity Through The Ekegusii Naming System
(University of Nairobi, 2017)
This paper analyses Ekegusii names and how they relate to gender identity. It shows how the naming system is basically based on the premise that a male is socialized to ‘gather wealth’, hence the term omosacha (‘man/husband’), ...
Kimeru-Influenced Misspellings And Wrong Lexical Choices In The Kiswahili Compositions Of Three Schools In Meru County, Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2017)
The aim of this paper was to investigate the Kimeru-influenced misspellings and wrong lexical choices in the Kiswahili compositions of three schools in the Meru County of Kenya, with gender as a variable. The objectives ...
The Role of Kiswahili Children’s Literature in formulating their Worldview
(University of Nairobi, 2018)
This Paper will examine how characters in Children’s Literature are portrayed by different authors
with the probable ramifications.Children’s literature in Kiswahili Language has grown
tremendously in the recent past.For ...
The Lingering Question of Neocolonialism in Selected Swahili Plays
(University of Nairobi, 2018)
This paper examines how the question of neocolonialism has been addressed by Kiswahili
writers by focusing on some selected plays by Timothy Arege and K.W. Wamitila. The paper’s
main objective is to identify how the theme ...
Contextual variability in the acceptability of Kenyan English grammatical features
(2013)
The present study set out to find out whether a number of grammatical
features assumed to be characteristic of Kenyan English would be
accepted at different levels depending on three parameters of linguistic
context: ...
Mchongoano and the ethnography of communication
(2015)
This paper is an attempt to give an ethnographic description of
mchongoano in order to understand how it achieves its objectives.
Mchongoano is a verbal duelling game popular with young people in Kenya
but also appreciated ...