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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 ...
Alignment systems and passive-antipassive distribution in nilotic languages
(2015)
This paper discusses the occurrence of passive and antipassive
constructions in Nilotic languages in relation to the question of whether
Nilotic languages developed from an ergative-absolutive to a nominativeaccusative
case ...
Sexual intercourse euphemisms in the Gĩkũyũ language: a cognitive linguistics approach
(2015)
The research on which this paper is based set out to identify the sexual
intercourse euphemisms used in Gĩkũyũ, a Bantu language spoken in Kenya,
then discuss the semantic and lexical processes used in those euphemisms,
and, ...
Inflectional forms of tense and aspect in Ateso
(2015)
This paper is an analysis of tense and aspect in Ateso, an Eastern Nilotic
language. Ateso distinguishes between past and non-past tenses: the past
tense is marked by a low tone on the syllable peaks of the verb, while ...