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THE PERFECTIVE AND THE IMPERFECTIVE ASPECTS IN XHOSA
The present corpus study aims to investigate the semantics of the perfective and the imperfective aspects in Xhosa. In a …
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THE SUBJECTIVE USE OF POSTURAL VERB IN AFRIKAANS (I): EVOLUTION FROM PROGRESSIVE TO MODAL
A general linguistic use of progressive aspect is to express some kind of subjective meaning. In other words, this aspectual …
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A PERFECT END: A STUDY OF SYLLABLE CODAS IN SOUTH AFRICAN SIGN LANGUAGE
South African Sign Language (SASL) is an understudied language with a rich and interesting phonology. For instance, while the language …
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HIATUS RESOLUTION IN XITSONGA
Vowel hiatus is dispreferred in many languages of the world. Xitsonga, an understudied cross-border southern Bantu language spoken in South …
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WHAT THE GIANT TELLS US ABOUT AGREEING POST-VERBAL SUBJECTS IN XHOSA
Constructions with the subject following the verb are a widely studied topic in Bantu linguistics. One such construction, in which …
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DECONSTRUCTING AND RE-INVENTING THE CONCEPT OF MULTILINGUALISM: A CASE STUDY OF THE MAURITIAN SOCIOLINGUISTIC LANDSCAPE
This article aims at deconstructing the conception of multilingualism developed in mainstream sociolinguistics by critically examining the assumptions underlying this …
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YOUTH DISCOURSE IN MULTILINGUAL MAURITIUS: THE PRAGMATIC SIGNIFICANCE OF SWEARING IN MULTIPLE LANGUAGE
Drawing from Dewaele (2010, 2013), this paper seeks to analyse the socio-pragmatics of swearing in face-to-face multilingual conversational encounters and …
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MULTILINGUALISM AND THE LANGUAGE CURRICULUM IN SOUTH AFRICA: CONTEXTUALISING FRENCH WITHIN THE LOCAL LANGUAGE ECOLOGY
In this paper, we question the role of second additional language (that is, an optional, non-official language) teaching, with special …
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