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Sensitising Users for Increased Information Use: The Case of Nigerian Farmers
(University of Nairobi, 2004)
This is a descriptive research that used a questionnaire. documentary sources and
interviews to find out how much do Nigerian farmers know and access NAERLS
information services. and how much the knowledge and access ...
Changing concepts of health and illness among children of primary school age in Western Kenya
(2004)
This paper examines changes in children’s concepts of health and illness following an action‐oriented health education intervention in Bondo district of Western Kenya. The study is a feasibility study exploring a specific ...
Privately Sponsored Students and Other Income-Generating Activities at the University of Nairob
(CODESRIA, 2004)
Beginning in the 1994-1995 academic year, the government sharply cut university funds from the Kenyan exchequer, challenging the University of Nairobi to diver sify its revenue sources. In response, the university adopted ...
Redundancy Rules in Kiswahili
(University of Nairobi, 2004)
This paper attempts to describe the sequence structure of vowel segments in Kiswahili. It proposes to establish a distinction between two main types of redundancy rules and their implications for the study of Kiswahili ...
Inflection in Toposa, a VSO Language in Morpho-syntactic Theory
(University of Nairobi, 2004)
This paper presents a morpho-syntactic approach to inflection as suggested under the new Minimalist Program (Chomsky 1993/1995). The language under consideration is Toposa, an Eastern Nilotic language which is highly ...
Written requests in Kenyan English: an illustration of L1 culture adaptation in L2 acquisition
(University of Nairobi, 2004)
This paper seeks to illustrate the observation from studies on second
language acquisition and use that culture-specific aspects of a given language
can be adapted to the norms of the culture of the linguistic community ...
Null Heads and Dp-Internal Concord in Bari
(University of Nairobi, 2004)
This paper provides evidence from Bari, an Eastern Nilotic language found in the southern Sudan, that not all that are known as ‘Determiners’ are generated in the D-head of DP as has been advocated by Abney (1987) and ...
The Relevance of Ethnobotanical Studies to Linguistic Vitality: The Case of Plant Use and Classification Among the Digo of Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2004)
This article summarises the findings of ethnobotanical research conducted among the Digo
people of Kwale District, Kenya, together with applications of this research for the benefit of
the local community and implications ...
The Phonology of Borrowed Words in Kitharaka
(University of Nairobi, 2004)
One consequence of language contact is borrowing. Kitharaka, a Bantu language spoken in the Eastern Province of Kenya, has had such contact with a number of languages including Kiswahili and English. As a result, several ...
Redundancy rules in Kiswahili
(2004)
This paper attempts to describe the sequence structure of vowel segments in
Kiswahili. It proposes to establish a distinction between two main types of
redundancy rules and their implications for the study of Kiswahili ...