The Morphology of the Sesotho form /-bo/ : An explanatory study

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dc.contributor.authorMoloi, Francina L.
dc.contributor.authorThetso, M. L.
dc.date.accessioned2016-11-28T11:40:26Z
dc.date.available2016-11-28T11:40:26Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.description.abstractThis paper examines the morphology of the noun in Mashami, a Tanzanian Bantu language (E62) spoken on the slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro, and describes the various ways in which a noun may be formed. Mashami illustrates the continuing modification of the grammatical and semantic structure of the Bantu noun class system, showing that the system has become quite arbitrary and is comparable to grammatical gender systems in many languages of the world. At the same time, an underlying semantic motive is clearly operative and gets exploited in creative ways to derive new forms for the lexicon. And this creativity, based on shifting and expanding worldviews, wreaks havoc to the traditional distinction between inflection and derivation.
dc.identifier.citationMoloi, F.L. and Thetso, �Madira L. (2014) The Morphology of the Sesotho form /-bo/: An explanatory study. Journal of Linguistics and Language in Education, Vol. 8, No. 1: 84 � 101
dc.identifier.issn0856-9965
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dc.identifier.urihttp://repository.tml.nul.ls/handle/20.500.14155/88
dc.language.isoEn
dc.publisherJournal of Linguistics and Language in Education
dc.rightsCopyright Department of Foreign Languages and Linguistics
dc.subjectLanguage
dc.titleThe Morphology of the Sesotho form /-bo/ : An explanatory studyen
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