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The verse-form of Northern Sotho oral poetry

open access: yesLiterator, 2002
Although examples of certain Northern Sotho traditional oral genres have been collected over years, a study of verse-form in traditional initiation poetry has not yet been undertaken. This article will consider the way in which Northern Sotho traditional
M.J. Mojalefa
doaj   +1 more source

Documenting Karamojong Oral Culture in Hamburg [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Interview with Luisa Nativi. In this inteview Luisa Nativi performs and translates a number of songs and tales of the Karamojong (Uganda)The Verba Africana series publishes video recording of African verbal arts on CDRom's, DVD’s and the Internet ...
Merolla, Daniela
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Determinants of Knowledge and Usage of Generative Artificial Intelligence in Agricultural Extension: Evidence From Tennessee Extension Personnel

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines the determinants of generative AI (GenAI) knowledge and usage among agricultural extension professionals. Drawing on survey data from agricultural extension personnel in Tennessee, we employ regression analyses and latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA) for topic modeling of open‐ended responses to study the knowledge and usage ...
Abdelaziz Lawani   +3 more
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Identificative copulatives in Southern Ndebele: evidence for diachronic postulations in Zulu

open access: yesLiterator, 2006
Southern Ndebele is the language with the smallest number of speakers of all eleven official languages of South Africa. It is thus not surprising that there is no comprehensive description of the copulatives of this language.
L. Posthumus
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Closed adjective classes and primary adjectives in African Languages [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
The existence of closed adjective classes (henceforth CAC) has long been recognized for African languages. Although I probably haven't found the earliest mention of this property , Welmers' 1973 statement in 'African Language Structures' is often quoted.
Segerer, Guillaume
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How Many Languages Are There

open access: yesJournal of Central and Eastern European African Studies
The question posed in the title is much more difficult to answer than the various lists on the Internet suggest. A good example of this is the dispute that arose between the author of this article and an English teacher (Mária Béres) a few years ago (by
Szilárd Biernaczky
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A critique of ‘A re-evaluation of tense in isiZulu’

open access: yesLiterator, 2016
This article is a response to Groenewald’s 2014 article, ‘A re-evaluation of tense in isiZulu’. Sub-themes identified in Groenewald’s article and explored in this exposé in the light of an array of recently published research on the topic of tense are ...
Lionel Posthumus
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The collective voice in The Madonna of Excelsior : narrating transformative possibilities

open access: yesLiterator, 2006
The collective voice in the novel, “The Madonna of Excelsior” (2002), reveals that crossing of borders is a process characterised by cultural contact that reduces cultural polarisation and makes social transformation possible.
N.S. Zulu
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