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. ...