Browsing by Author "Sande, Walter Ochieng"
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A Description of Olusuba Morphophonology: Towards Preservation of an Endangered Language
Sande, Walter Ochieng (JOOUST, 2019)Language plays an important role in cultural preservation, linguistic diversity, cultural identity, accumulated wisdom and some knowledge embedded in it. A language is in danger when it is on the brink of losing these five ... -
A minimalist analysis of Dholuo verbal extensions
Sande, Walter Ochieng (School of Humanities & Social Sciences, 2016-04)Dholuo is a language with a complex morphology. This complexity is evident in its derivational morphology which is characterized by verbal extensions. These extensions are: applicative, locative, reflexive, reciprocal and ... -
An Optimality Analysis of Hiatus Resolution Strategies in Olusuba
Sande, Walter Ochieng; Ondondo, Emily Ayieta; Rew, Francis Owino (American Research Institute for Policy Development, 2019-06)Vowel hiatus is a prohibited configuration of vowels in many languages of the world. This study is established to examine strategies used to resolve vowel hiatus in Olusuba, a Bantu language spoken in parts of Kenya, ... -
A Study of Vowel Length in Olusuba.
Sande, Walter Ochieng; Ondondo, Emily Ayieta; Rew, Francis Owino (International Journal of English Language and Linguistics Research, 2019-05)This article describes vowel length in Olusuba. The objective of this study is to investigate sources of vowel length in Olusuba. Data for this study was collected from a secondary source: Dholuo translation of Olusuba. ...