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The form of contemporary Sesotho proverbs
South African Journal of African Languages, 2014There are newly coined contemporary Sesotho proverbs and traditional proverbs that have been altered to suit modernity. These proverbs are being used in everyday language by Basotho. However, the main challenge is to establish whether they have the same form as traditional proverbs.
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A study of the auxiliary in Sesotho
1988The Auxiliary is a sadly neglected field of study in Southern African languages. The study investigates the syntactic and semantic behaviour of Auxiliaries in Sesotho. Having established that there is a category AUX in Sesotho, we then developed a descriptive framework in which auxiliaries in Sesotho participate. In this framework we posit as basic the
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The scope of negation in Sesotho
2018Negation is described by Zanuttini (1997) as the syntactic process by which a language employ negative markers to negate a clause in order to express a negative proposition. Negation entails constituent negation and sentence negation which together serve as inferences to the scope of negation. Du Plessis and Visser (1992) describe scope as that portion
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Maturation and the Acquisition of the Sesotho Passive
Language, 1989Borer & Wexler 1987 explain the apparent late acquisition of verbal passive in English and Hebrew by hypothesizing that the principle governing A-chain formation matures relatively late in language development. However, in Sesotho, a Bantu language, verbal passives are acquired early, by at least 2;8 years.
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The Sesotho riddle as a poetic text
South African Journal of African Languages, 1996This paper illustrates that the Sesotho riddle, like the Sesotho proverb, is poetic in nature. Several poetic devices such as parallelism, contrast, idiophones, repetitions and others contribute to its poetic nature. There are some syntactic features that operate at different levels of word, word group, phrases and sentences that help to make the ...
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Metaphor Frequency and Distribution in Three Sesotho Newspapers’ Coverage of HIV and AIDS
Language Matters, 2021Ntṡoeu Seepheephe
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A study on the perception of tone and intonation in Sesotho
Interspeech 2011, 2011Hansjörg Mixdorff +3 more
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3-Year-olds’ comprehension, production, and generalization of Sesotho passives
Cognition, 2010Katherine Demuth
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