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This study, A Logical Analysis of Selected Texts in Nyanja, applies logic to Nyanja as an African language. This is because most studies have concentrated on Western languages and only a few Asian languages. There is hardly any evidence of such studies on African languages, let alone Zambian...

The present study explores the nature of making requests in Bemba from a pragmatic point of view. It attempts to discuss the various strategies used for making requests in Bemba. Four major aspects of requesting in Bemba were examined: the linguistic forms used, the categories of request...

This study is about the phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics and some aspects of sociolinguistics of English-derived loanwords in Bemba. It is a corpus study of 900 items. Because the syllable structure of English differs from that of Bemba, the aim of this research was to collect and study...

This study examined syntactic errors committed by Bemba-speaking high school pupils learning french in the lusaka Province of Zambia. This was aimed at testing the theoretical position that first language (LI) and Second Language (L2) interfere with the learning of Third language (13). The study...

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...

The purpose of this thesis is to analyze the development of theatre in Zambia with special emphasis to the period between 1950 and 1975. The methodology is mainly descriptive with material based on the author's personal experience, interviews, observations, correspondence, and on printed material...

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...

Oral literattire plays a significant role in the socialiaation of young people in any society. Among the Tumbuka, the dominant farm is the vidokoni, one of the four main genres. The others are midauko, ntarika and nyimbo, Vidokeni, comprising narratives both with and witJaout song, is extensively...

This study investigates the aspects of syntactic tone in Lozi. It looks at the tones of words in citation form and what happens when they are placed in context. This involves two levels. The first is the Phonological level where the tones of words in each word class were marked for tone. The...