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This study is an investigation into ‘The Adaptation of English Words in Tonga’. The study is carried out from within the optimality theoretical framework, a linguistics model developed as a direct response to a “conceptual crisis at the centre of phonological thought” concerning the role of...

The main object of the present study is to investigate pronun¬ciation difficulties encountered by Benba students learning French in Secondary School on the Copperbelt. Many years of teaching French have proved tome that many students have difficulties in pronouncing certain French sounds. This is...

The aim of this study has been to present an investigation into the nature and character of the verbal extensions in Bemba and to postulate a model for the analysis, parsing and description of Bemba verbal grammar that is based on morphemes. Extensions are morphemes that are suffixed to the...

The aim of this study is to present an analysis of the morphology, syntax, semantics and phonology of the applied, causative and passive verb extensions in Tonga.The syntactic and semantic analysis is undertaken in the context of Government-Binding Theory whereas the phonological analysis employs...

This study investigated tone in some verbal forms of Lamba from an autosegmental viewpoint. The aim was to establish the relationship between underlying and surface tone representations in these forms. The dissertation comprises three chapters. Chapter One, the Introduction, presents the...

The purpose of this study was to collect and discover the efficacy of Bemba work songs and how they could influence the upbringing of the younger Bemba generation. The study was intended as referred to above, to collect, interpret and analyse the literary forms used in them bringing out the...

This work examined cohesion and coherence in the written English produced by some undergraduate students at the University of Zambia, Lusaka. The exercise was done to test the theoretical position that there is a relationship between cohesion and coherence in English and to establish the...