Essays about: "African linguistics"

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1. 1. This shit gonna get real heavy - A quantitative study on the use of African-American Vernacular English in The Wire and The Princess and the Frog. : This shit gonna get real heavy - En kvantitativ studie om hur afroamerikansk engelska används i The Wire och Prinsessan och grodan.

   University essay from Karlstads universitet/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur (from 2013)

   Author : Viktor Everstam; [2021]
   Keywords : African-American Vernacular English; AAVE; English; entertainment; linguistics;

   Abstract : The purpose of this study is to investigate how the spoken variety African-American VernacularEnglish (AAVE) is used in entertainment. This is performed by comparing the spoken language oftwo fictional characters from two different sources of entertainment who are depicted as AAVEspeakers. READ MORE

3. 2. THE PROSODY OF TENSE MARKING IN TEKE-EBOO. A Bantu B70 language of Congo-Brazzaville

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

   Author : Ruth Raharimanantsoa; [2017-06-20]
   Keywords : Afrikanska språk; African linguistics; Bantu B70 language cluster; Eboo; Kukuya; tense marking; stem-initial stress accent; tone melodies; grammatical tone; intonation; downstep; boundary L tone;

   Abstract : Teke-Eboo is a Bantu B70 language spoken in Congo-Brazzaville, which displays complex tone melodies combining grammatical tone, subject agreement tone and lexical tone on verbs. This study of tense marking in Eboo identifies the tones which mark the recent past, general past and future tenses, and shows how the underlying high-low (H-L) contrastive tone system adds both downstepped H and mid (M) tones in surface realisations. READ MORE

4. 3. Contact induced change in Bena (G63) – A study of ‘swahilization’ in a Tanzanian vernacular language

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

   Author : Rasmus Bernander; [2012-10-12]
   Keywords : African languages; Bantu; Bena; Swahili; contact linguistics; contact induced change; unequal bilingualism; swahilization ; vocabulary; loanwords; borrowing;

   Abstract : The aim of this study is to describe how Swahili is influencing the vocabulary of Bena (G63), one of the vernacular languages of Tanzania. The paper is written within the field of contact linguistics and relies on theories on how the linguistic outcome of the dis-empowered language is affected in an intense and unequal language contact situation. READ MORE

5. 4. Aspects of phonology in Eboo-Nzikou (Bantu B74)

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

   Author : Ruth Raharimanantsoa; [2012-06-27]
   Keywords : African linguistics; Bantu languages; Congo-Brazzaville; Teke; Eboo-Nzikou; Proto-Bantu; phonology; advanced tongue root harmony; consonant loss; vowel assimilation; vowel splits; nasalisation;

   Abstract : This paper describes aspects of the phonology of Eboo-Nzikou which forms part of the Teke language group (Bantu B70) spoken in Congo-Brazzaville. It posits that Eboo and Nzikou are phonologically the same variety of Teke. Proto-Bantu reconstructions, as well as two previous phonological sketches of Eboo are taken as the basis for this study. READ MORE

6. 5. The noun phrase in Kwere, a Bantu language of Tanzania.

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

   Author : Mirjam Möller; [2011-06-30]
   Keywords : African linguistics; Bantu languages; Tanzania; Kwere; noun class; nominal class prefix; concord or agreement class prefix;

   Abstract : The paper describes the noun phrase in Kwere, a Bantu language of Tanzania; its noun class system as well as singular and plural pairings. It investigates the several different elements which are part of the noun phrase. the data presented in the study was collected during a field trip in 2011.. READ MORE