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In Search of Prosodic Domains in Lusoga [PDF]
UC Berkeley Phonology Lab Annual Reports, 2016 In this paper I raise the question of whether Lusoga, a Bantu language of Uganda, recognizes syntactically determined prosodic domains, which have been extensively described in near-mutually intelligible Luganda. I first briefly recapitulate the syntactic constructions that give rise to the tone group (TG) and tone phrase (TP) domains in Luganda and ...
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The Autosegmental Approach to Tone in Lusoga [PDF]
UC Berkeley Phonology Lab Annual Reports, 2016 The Autosegmental Approach to Tone in ...
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Revolutionizing bantu lexicography: a Zulu case study [PDF]
, 2010 Zulu uses a conjunctive writing system, that is, a system whereby relatively short linguistic words are joined together to form long orthographic words with complex morphological structures.
de Schryver, Gilles-Maurice
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Lack of Effectiveness of Antiretroviral Therapy in Preventing HIV Infection in Serodiscordant Couples in Uganda: An Observational Study. [PDF]
, 2015 BACKGROUND: We examined the real-world effectiveness of ART as an HIV prevention tool among HIV serodiscordant couples in a programmatic setting in a low-income country.
Birungi, Josephine +13 more
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Towards a monitor corpus for a Bantu language. A case study of neology detection in Lusoga
, 2022 This paper looks at whether, after two decades of corpus building for the Bantu languages, the time is ripe to begin using monitor corpora. As a proof-of-concept, the usefulness of a Lusoga monitor corpus for lexicographic purposes, in casu for the detection of neologisms, both in terms of new words and new meanings, is investigated and found useful.
De Schryver, Gilles-Maurice +1 more
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International Journal of Mental Health Systems, 2008 Background Mental health problems are a major public health concern worldwide. Evidence shows that African communities, including Uganda, use both modern and traditional healing systems.
Okello Elialilia +5 more
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Illness recognition and care-seeking for maternal and newborn complications in rural eastern Uganda. [PDF]
, 2017 BACKGROUND: To enhance understanding of the roles of community-based initiatives in poor rural societies, we describe and explore illness recognition, decision-making, and appropriate care-seeking for mothers and newborn illnesses in two districts in ...
Hanson, Claudia +5 more
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BMC Public Health, 2010 Background A policy for couple HIV counseling and testing was introduced in 2006 in Uganda, urging pregnant women and their spouses to be HIV tested together during antenatal care (ANC).
Popenoe Rebecca +5 more
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A typology of Bantu subject inversion [PDF]
, 2014 This study charts variation in subject inversion constructions in Bantu languages. It distinguishes between seven types of inversion constructions: formal locative inversion, semantic locative inversion, instrument inversion, patient inversion, (clausal)
Marten, Lutz, van der Wal, Jenneke
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The first person singular subject negative portmanteau in Luganda and Lusoga [PDF]
Berkeley Papers in Formal Linguistics, 2018 Author(s): Hyman, Larry | Abstract: A number of studies have provided analyses of Swahili si-, a portmanteau morpheme that conflates and replaces the first person singular subject and negative prefixes. In this short paper I present the corresponding facts from Luganda and Lusoga, two closely related Bantu languages spoken in Uganda.
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