its comparative rarity may be indicated by the fact that in a review of the literature for the ensuing fifty-two years (Stieve 1916) only thirty-nine cases were collected. Lapidus, Guidotti and Coletti (1943) discovered six cases while examining 75,000 men drafted to an American Army centre. These workers quoted a statement by Dr M. Pomeranz. radiologist of the Hospital for Joint Diseases in Ne...

Previous studies on implosives have shown a great diversity in the production of implosives among the languages in the world. In the light of this, this paper seeks to identify the acoustic phonetic properties of a Bantu language, Mpiemo, spoken in the Central African Republic. One of the strong acoustic correlates of implosives is increasing voicing amplitude during occlusion, which contrasts ...

XEROPHTHALMIA and malnutrition are worldwide problems, and their relationships to each other are of special interest. It is the purpose of this paper to show that: (1) Xerophthalmia occurs not uncommonly in the Republic of South Africa. Previous reports of xerophthalmia in the Republic of South Africa are few. Kark (1943) and Klenerman (1950) stated that xerophthalmia infrequently accompanies p...

Abstract This paper investigates the sociolinguistic factors that impact typology and evolution of grammatical gender systems in northwestern Bantu, most diverse area Bantu-speaking world. We base our analyses on a typological classification 179 Bantu languages, focusing various instances semantic agreement their role erosion marking. In addition, we conduct in-depth sociolinguistics population...

SIMPLE open-angle glaucoma in the South African Bantu races is an even graver disease than in Europeans. Should the disease progress, as it usually does, so that drug therapy no longer controls the pressure and surgery becomes inevitable, the results of drainage operations -are strangled by the relatively rapid fibrosis that develops. Generally this has been attributed to the keloid tendency of...

Several languages, including Amharic (Semitic; Leslau 1995), Engenni (Kwa; Thomas 1978) and possibly Aghem (Bantu; Hyman 1979) display a curious pattern in which an indexical pronoun such as ‘I’ or ‘you’ can refer to the speaker or hearer of a reported speech act rather than of the actual discourse (see also Hale & Platero 1996 and Speas 1999 for related facts in Navajo). The following is an ex...

The data were collected from various hospitals and nursing homes in Durban, Pietermaritzburg, and Capetown, as shown below: 3,165 European babies from two private nursing homes in Durban. 1,057 coloured (i.e. half-caste)t babies from a mission hospital in Durban, and two provincial hospitals, one in Capetown and one in Pietermaritzburg. 2,188 Bantu babies from a mission hospital in Durban. 1,39...