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Parasynthesis in Degema: Simultaneous affixation or suffixation and concomitant prefixation
(Linguistics Association of SADC Universities, 2015-04)
This paper discusses parasynthesis, also known as circumfixation, in Degema. It highlights the fact that circumfixes are controversial not only because of the possibility to analyze them as discontinuous units consisting ...
Second position clitics in Degema: a reanalysis
(West African Linguistic Society; www.westafricanlinguisticssociety.org, 2015)
This paper reanalyzes so-called second position clitics in Degema as verb-adjacent clitics. The reanalysis is based on the observation that these clitics cannot be separated from the verb by intervening elements. Kari ...
Strategies for naming tourist sites in Botswana
(University of Botswana http://www.ub.bw, 2014)
This paper aims at establishing and discussing the strategies for naming tourist sites in the languages of Botswana using a descriptive approach. In addition, the paper attempts a classification of these tourist sites in ...
Post Africa(n) feminism?
(Routledge (Taylor and francis), www.routledge.com, 2010)
The growing body of literature authored by women in Africa and the African Diaspora over the past four decades has been accompanied by
vigorous debates out of which has evolved a body of theories pertaining
to African ...
Understanding the rural-urban dichotomy in Mositi Torontle's the victims and Unity Dow's far and beyon'
(Indiana University Press, www.iupress.indiana.edu, 2010)
This paper examines how place is represented in two Botswana novels, Far
and Beyon’ by Unity Dow and The Victims by Mositi Torontle. Conventional
notions of rural as the “authentic” experience that is threatened by ...
The role of dictionaries in the documentation and codification of African languages: the case of Khoisan
(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 ...