Showing papers in "African Studies in 1984"
TL;DR: The changing nature of isihlonipho sabafazi is discussed in this article, where the author discusses the role of gender in the evolution of sabafazian beliefs.
Abstract: (1984). The changing nature of isihlonipho sabafazi. African Studies: Vol. 43, No. 2, pp. 137-146.
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TL;DR: In this paper, stress and intonation and the intelligibility of South African Black English are discussed in the context of African Studies: Vol. 43, No. 2, pp. 217-230.
Abstract: (1984). Stress and intonation and the intelligibility of South African Black English. African Studies: Vol. 43, No. 2, pp. 217-230.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the naming of South Africa's best-known black urban township, Soweto, and its subdivisions is discussed, with the focus on the distinctive meanings and interpretations embedded in certain of the names submitted for consideration.
Abstract: This chapter deals with the naming of South Africa's best-known black urban township, Soweto, and its subdivisions. At one level the presentation seeks only to detail the findings of an exercise in local toponymy. First, attention is given to the proposals put forward for labelling the southwestern townships, to the consultations and to the selection procedures followed. In the opening section it is the naming process which is spotlighted. The subsequent section switches the focus to the distinctive meanings and interpretations embedded in certain of the names submitted for consideration. This second section highlights the connotations which the southwestern townships acquired. Throughout the study, information is drawn from official archival records.
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TL;DR: Les specificites de l'annobonais par rapport aux autres creoles, notamment portugais, peuvent s'expliquer par des substrats kwa et bantou, ce qui infirme l'hypothese " universelle " de Bickerton.
Abstract: Les specificites de l'annobonais par rapport aux autres creoles, notamment portugais, peuvent s'expliquer par des substrats kwa et bantou, ce qui infirme l'hypothese " universelle " de Bickerton
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TL;DR: In the case of Bantu, this paper showed that nouns can be represented by tree structures, and this is the case for any other type of phrase in the lexicon.
Abstract: INTRODUCTION No longer need one study a Bantu language like a cryptogram. The existence of language universals is common knowledge today. Most languages have nouns and verbs, but how they are used depends on their typology. Morphology is accepted again as a distinctive level in linguistics, cf. Halle (1973). He relates it to the lexicon, one of the components of the rule system of grammar according to Chomsky (1982: 4). As any Bantu linguist knows, the occurrence of a single free morpheme as a word is not so common in these languages as in English. A word category is usually a concatenation of morphemes. Chomsky has lately broadened the base of his theory and has brought it closer to the more general principles of grammar as practised by linguists in the past. In his latest work (1982:15) he queries the possibility that phrase markers may be represented by tree structures. This is made clear by what is said by him earlier (op. cit.:9) that in a VP there is only a head and that all other specifications are redundant: this is true for any other type of phrase. For the Bantu language this is a most important statement where so many single phrases are sentences consisting only of a verb, or rather a word belonging to the predicative category. Chomsky (1981:5) has accepted an abstract CASE system for the noun. His abstract CASE theory is developed within the framework of a government theory. CASE and 0 theory are closely related. 9 theory has to do with the thematic relationship assigned to nouns, e.g., agents of action. This does not imply that all thematic relations can be subsumed under CASE. Louw (1972) expressed doubts about this when he dealt with relational semantic features which are basically the same as the thematic relations of Chomsky. Chomsky (1982) gives a full exposition of his componential principles of grammar, but we shall make use of it only now and then, because it is still more of a linguistic hypothesis than a set of well-tested linguistic principles.
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TL;DR: In this paper, symbol and authority in Mpondo ancestor religion are discussed and discussed in the context of African studies. But they do not discuss the role of gender in ancestor religion.
Abstract: (1983). Symbol and authority in Mpondo ancestor religion. African Studies: Vol. 42, No. 2, pp. 113-133.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors show the historical development of the Qhalaxari verb tone classes and their autosegmental properties, showing that CB ∗CV radicals retain their tones even though the original tonebearing vowel had been desyllabified or deleted.
Abstract: 3. SUMMARY This paper has been an attempt to show the historical development of the Qhalaxari verb tone classes. Its findings may be summarized as follows: (i) CB and Qhalaxari tone is autosegmental. This was shown by the fact that CB ∗CV radicals retain their tones in Qhalaxari even though the original tone‐bearing vowel had been desyllabified or deleted. (ii) Double‐vowel and single‐vowel radicals have merged to single‐vowel radicals only. This was possibly due to what must have been the disruptive effect of penultimate prepausal lengthening on the original double versus single vowel distinction. (iii) CB tone classes ∗L and ∗LL have merged completely due to the loss of double‐vowel radicals and the masking effect of toneless low assignment on the tone attachment of the second L of original ∗LL radicals. (iv) The Qhalaxari HIGH‐2 tone class comes from the CB single ∗H class. The second high tone in the Qhalaxari forms is regarded as the effect of high spread, which also affects the high tone on subject,...
TL;DR: In this paper, the processus d'acculturation des Nama et des Khoe de Namibie par le biais de leur litterature populaire, en analysant l'etendue de l'influence des contes et legendes europeens d'apres des recueils realises vers la fin du XIX siecle.
Abstract: L'A. envisage le processus d'acculturation des Nama et des Khoe de Namibie par le biais de leur litterature populaire, en analysant l'etendue de l'influence des contes et legendes europeens d'apres des recueils realises vers la fin du XIX siecle. Il etudie egalement la diffusion d'un heros de conte nguni (Afrique du Sud), tokolossi.
TL;DR: A typological approach to Bantu linguistic studies is presented in this paper, where the authors present a typology approach to linguistic studies in the context of Bantus linguistic studies.
Abstract: (1984). A typological approach to Bantu linguistic studies. African Studies: Vol. 43, No. 2, pp. 241-248.
TL;DR: The interpretation of Ndonga predicate forms outlined above may be summarized for verbal forms in the Table below, where conceptual distinctions and the formatives that signal them are correlated.
Abstract: 8. SUMMARY The interpretation of Ndonga predicate forms outlined above may be summarized for verbal forms in the Table below, where conceptual distinctions and the formatives that signal them are correlated. Copulatives reflect in a simple way only some of the features of this system, and ideophones markedly less so.