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Intransitive psych verbs and nominalisation in Xitsonga

South African Journal of African Languages, 2014
Although scholars generally agree that there are some similarities between verbs and their associative derived nominals, they are yet to find common ground as to the extent of the verbal properties that are shared by their nominal counterparts. In this article the extent of similarities between psych verbs and their associated derived nominals in ...
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Phonological words and syntactic constituents in XiTsonga

South African Journal of African Languages, 1992
The distinction between phonological and syntactic words, most evident in cases of discord between the domain of the Dokean phonological word and constituent structure, is considered. The integrity of the unit noun class prefix + stem, a central concept in Bantu morphosyntax, is questioned.
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A Surface Constraint in Xitsonga

Africana Linguistica, 2015
BENNETT, William G., LEE, Seunghun J.
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False friends: The case of Tshivenḓa and Xitsonga

Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies
The challenges that are posed to interpreters by false friends in European languages, such as English, French, Spanish and Portuguese,  have been reported on extensively. Although the same challenges may be experienced in African languages, no such report is available  for Tshivenḓa and Xitsonga.
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ICULD-0021 Xitsonga: Morphosyntactic Microvariation

ICUWPL, 2021
Hlungwani, Crous M., Maswanganyi, Vicent, Lee, Seunghun J., Hirano, Marin, Shinagawa, Daisuke, Varela Almiron, Patricio   +5 more
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An analysis of Xitsonga proverbs regarding wild animals

Journal for Language Teaching
The aim of the study reported in this paper is to examine Xitsonga proverbs, which are coined from wild animals, to demonstrate how they depict different lessons of life, behaviour and philosophy of life in aspects such as working together, promoting good behaviour, reprimanding bad behaviour and adjudication of cases.
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Standardised orthography challenges in class 5 and 6 prefixes and prepositions in Xitsonga

South African Journal of African Languages, 2021
Arnold Mushwana
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Development of Automatic Speech Recognition for Xitsonga Using Subspace Gaussian Mixture Model

2021
Madimetja Jonas Manamela
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Decoding Figurative Folklore: A Case of Xitsonga Proverbs

Southern African Journal for Folklore Studies
This article examines the nature, use, and meanings of proverbs as tools of discourse and philosophical expressions among Vatsonga. Within the Vatsonga traditions, proverbs, as a form of folklore, are verbally expressed and transmitted from one generation to another. Inherent in these elements are the cultural and philosophical traits that are supposed
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Xitsonga Orthography

Sikheto Joe Kubayi, Osborn Risimati Chauke   +1 more
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