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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 ...
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 ...