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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 ...
Inflection in Toposa: A VSO language in morpho - syntactic theory.
(University of Nairobi, 2004)