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   Nominalisation and semantic shift in selected isiXhosa nouns

   Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of African Languages • Authors: Andiswa Mvanyashe --- Nelson Mandela University, South Africa

   This study addresses the process of nominalisation in isiXhosa to establish its historical development and implications on the writing and sense of words. Nominalisation, an important feature of scientific writing, enables information concentration as well as grammatical functions such as...

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   Enhancing communication through an analysis of Sesotho motion verbs

   Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of African Languages • Authors: Motsamai Paul Lesoetsa --- Walter Sisulu University, South Africa

   This article investigates motion verbs in Sesotho. It will seek to define these verbs, showing their relevance in enhancing communication through the markedness theory. Zhang and Tian (2015) proposes with markedness theory in the world’s languages that certain linguistic elements...

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