Browsing by Author "Chebanne, Andy"
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The amplexives in Setswana
Chebanne, Andy (Journal of the Linguistics Association of Southern African Development Community Universities, journals.ub.bw/index.php/lasu, 2016-07-28)Amplexives are nouns that morphologically do not fall within the normal nominal class system but are used as names of individuals which then mean they must be proper nouns. Therefore, Setswana has not only a complex verbal ... -
Found and lost languages: a survey of the past and current situation of Botswana ethic and linguistic communities
Chebanne, Andy (University of Botswana, www.ub.ac.bw, 2017-01-18)Botswana is blessed with 26 languages and ethnic communities and RETENG (the Multicultural Coalition for Botswana) (2015) considers this situation as reason to celebrate the country’s rich cultural and language diversity. ... -
Introduction to the Special Issue on Humanities at the University of Botswana and Botswana’s 50 Years of Independence
Makgala, Christian John; Chebanne, Andy (University of Botswana, www.ub.ac.bw, 2017-01-18)We are greatly pleased and excited as the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Botswana (UB) for producing such a momentous special issue of the Botswana Notes and Records on Humanities and Botswana’s 50 years of ... -
The phonologization of English words in Kalanga
Chebanne, Andy; Phili, Chipo (University of Botswana; www.ub.bw, 2015-10-08)The Kalanga language is spoken in Botswana and Zimbabwe. In Botswana, it has no literary role, but the majority of its speakers have learnt English at school. This has over time led to borrowing and adoption of English ... -
‘Plagiarism is a great insult’: politics and discourses of intellectual property rights infringement in Botswana, 1970s to 2016
Makgala, Christian John; Bolaane, Maitseo; Chebanne, Andy (University of Botswana, www.ub.ac.bw, 2017-01-18)Primarily utilising information in the public domain in the form of media reports on claims of plagiarism, this paper explores issues of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) infringement in Botswana since the 1970s. Particular ... -
The role of dictionaries in the documentation and codification of African languages: the case of Khoisan
Chebanne, Andy (http://afrilex.africanlanguages.com/homelex.html, 2010)Khoisan speech communities are found in Southern Africa, with Botswana having the greatest ethnic and linguistic diversity. Living in small communities, the Khoisan have always found themselves in a situation of being ... -
The San of the “Central Kalahari Game Reserve”: Can nature be protected without the indigenous San of Botswana?
Chebanne, Andy; Glon, Eric (University of Botswana, www.ub.ac.bw, 2017-12-31)Historically, San people have occupied the territory that is now referred to as the Central Kalahari Game Reserve. In this semi-desert area, they have, over generations, adapted to the dry environment and learnt to survive ... -
‘What’s in or not in a name’?: the untold story of canoe naming among the Basubiya of the Chobe District in Botswana
Ndana, Ndana; Gumbo, Glorious Bongani; Chebanne, Andy (University of Botswana, www.ub.ac.bw, 2017-01-18)As a broad and multidisciplinary study on the socio-economic activities, ethno-culture and indigenous communities’ social ecology of the Chobe District, the focus of this paper is the Subiya onomasticon (a vocabulary or ...