This paper critiques the treatment of English homographs and homophones in linguistic literatures. The study is motivated by the fact that the available data are questionable on the subject, thus calling for re-analysis. ...

This paper uses the Cognitive Grammar Theory to examine the semantics of Kinyarwanda causative and applicative. The study was motivated by the fact that Kinyarwanda verb extensions, particularly the causative and ...

The purpose of this article describes the factors that influence the choice of goat names in the ẞasukuma communities of Tanzania. No study being conducted to investigate these names is known, a reason this study was ...

Teaching experience has shown that most undergraduates cannot identify English homographs and them with other semantic relations. It was thus found interesting to explore factors leading to such students’ partial ...

This study investigates the portmanteau manifestations-j- and -k-verb morphs in Hangaza language spoken in Tanzania. The study was motivated by the language’s peculiarities in its post-radical semantic elasticity; ...

The paper analyses Hen naming system among the Sukuma speech community of Tanzania. Most literature has concentrated on personal, cow, dog, and tree names but not Hen names despite their socio-cultural significance. ...

Generally, the possibility of Bantu languages having infixes has been ignored or not given proper attention. Thus, the argument that, ‘infix affixation rather than prefix and suffix is impossible in Bantu languages is ...

This paper aims to analyze the factors triggering suffix ordering in the Hangaza language spoken in Tanzania. Suffix ordering pertinent to verb extensions has been controversial since the twentieth century. This is ...