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Simplifying the Rules in the Grammar of Kenyan English
(University of Nairobi, 2001)
This paper looks at the grammatical (i.e. syntactic and morphological) features of ‘Kenyan
English’. With reference, as the target, to the grammar of what one could call standard
'international' English, the features in ...
Language Issues in a Multilingual Society: the Kenyan Experience
(University of Nairobi, 2001)
In many developing countries, language issues have taken a back seat. Here in Kenya, there are more than forty local languages in use by the various ethnic communities. Whereas some politicians have campaigned for the ...
Planning Second Language Curricula: Needs Analysis and Behavioural Objectives
(University of Nairobi, 2001)
On the underlying assumption that the student should be at the centre of the learning process, this paper attempts an overview of different types of needs that students may have when learning a foreign language. It also ...
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 ...
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 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)
Misuse of Kiswahili noun class markers in Kenya: illustration with the case of the Kiswahili of form-three students of the Akiba secondary school in Nairobi
(2010)
The aim of this paper was to establish the extent of misuse of noun class markers in written Kiswahili in Kenya. It illustrates with the case of the Kiswahili of Form Three students of the Akiba Secondary School in Nairobi. ...