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The Agreement Phrase in Phrase Structure Derivations in Western Nilotic Languages
(University of Nairobi, 2001)
In this paper we explore the differences in the Agreement Phrase that have arisen in Western Nilotic languages, a sub-family of the Nilo-Saharan language family. We adopt a Principles and Parameters approach which makes ...
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)
Tone Marking in Kĭkamba: a Case for Improving Its Orthography
(University of Nairobi, 2007)
This paper discusses the rationale for practically marking tone in the writing of Kĭkamba. It shows the limitations that readers of Kĭkamba encounter because of the absence of tone marking in its current orthography. ...
Vowel systems of Kenyan languages
(Unversity of Nairobi, 2007)