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 ...

Lexemes in linguistics are not restricted in their semantic scopes and interpretation. This article focuses on the evidence of Cognitive Grammatical Theory in Kisukuma lexical and verb allomorphs. The theorys major aim ...

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 paper aims at describing phonological processes in Kémunasukuma dialect of the Kísukuma language because there is no evidence of any literature of Kisukuma phonological processes despite the existence of a number ...

The paper examines on socio-cultural and psychological analysis of language and gender discrimination. The motivation behind the examination was due to the increase of discriminated language assigned to gender. ...

This study was about sociolinguistics stance of language as the pedestal for gender inequality in the Kurya of Tanzania. The study employed the case study design using the Kurya speech community from Kitenga Village ...

The paper sets out the valency changes in the South Pare dialect spoken in Mwamba Vunta and Chome Suji divisions of the same district, following the fact that the language is understudied on the topic under discussion. ...

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 ...