note on bare-passives in (selected) Bantu and Western Nilotic Languages

The Consequences of the Contacts between Bantu and Non-Bantu Languages around Lake Eyasi in Northern Tanzania

In rural Tanzania, recent major influences happen between Kiswahili and English to ethnic languages rather than ethnic languages, which had been in contact for so long, influencing each other. In this work, I report the results of investigation of lexical changes in indigenous languages that aimed at examining how ethnic communities and their languages, namely Cushitic Iraqw, Nilotic Datooga, N...

Phonological Aspects of Western Nilotic Mutation Morphology

Disambiguation of morphological analysis in Bantu languages

The paper describes problems in disambiguating the morphological analysis of Bantu languages by using Swahili as a test language. The main factors of ambiguity in this language group can be traced to the noun class structure on one hand and to the bi-directional word-formation on the other. In analyzing word-forms, the system applied utilizes SWATWOL, a morphological parsing program based on tw...

On the Status of Object Markers in Bantu languages

Much of this literature has concentrated on chosing between one of two analyses: either the OM is a pure agreement marker, analogous to subject markers/agreement in Bantu and other languages, or it is a cliticized pronoun that counts as the true object of the verb even though it appears on the verb on the surface. On the latter analysis, the overt NP in (1c) is not the true grammatical object o...

Note on fuzzy languages

A fuzzy language is defined to be a fuzzy subset of the set of strings over a finite alphabet. The notions of union, intersection, concatenation, Kleene closure, and grammar for such languages are defined as extensions of the corresponding notions in the theory of formal languages. An explicit expression for the membership function of the language Z,(G) generated by a fuzzy grammar G is given, ...