Department of Linguistics: Recent submissions

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    • The Syntax of Head-Marked Phrases and Head-Marking Morphemes in Lunyore 

      Lihemo, Muhanji Leonida; Ongarora, David; Okello, Jackline (Indiana Journal of Arts & Literature, 2024-10-22)
      A language is head-marking if the grammatical marks showing agreement tend to be placed on the heads of phrases. Lunyore like many bantu languages is agglutinating and therefore has a rich and complex morphology. The ...

    • Semantic Role-Marking in Lunyore Morphology and Syntax 

      Lihemo, Muhanji Leonida; Ongarora, David; Okello, Jackline (East African Scholars Multidisciplinary Bulletin, 2024)
      Semantic roles denote different semantic relations that a noun phrase plays with respect to the action or state described by a predicate of a sentence. Semantic is another universal feature of language, if there is an event ...

    • Hiatal configurations and their resolution in kinshasa lingala: evidence from songs by TPOK jazz band 

      Macharia, Joshua Maina; Kembo-Sure, Edward; Oloo, Pamela Anyango; Omondi, Erick (International Research Journal of Rongo University, 2024-10-02)
      This paper is a constraint-based description of hiatal configurations in Kinshasa Lingala and the strategies used to resolve them in connected speech. The study is grounded in Optimality Theory (Prince & Smolensky, 1993/2004) ...

    • Multimodality in the television advertisement of Raha premium maize meal 

      Midigo, Jackton Otieno; Kodak, Benard Otieno; Ongarora, David Ogoti; Damaris Gechemba Nyakoe, Damaris Gechemba (ResearchGate, 2024-07-26)
      In language and communication, multimodality refers to using various modes of signification to convey meaning. These modes transcend language to engage with audiences at multiple sensory levels. Over time, communication ...

    • Perceptions in Uhuru-Raila 9th March, 2018 handshake discourse in Kenya’s print media 

      Abade, Jude Opiyo; Onyango, P.O; Okello, J (Scholars Middle East Publishers, 2022-01-21)
      In Kenya, the handshake between President Uhuru Kenyatta and Orange Democratic Movement (henceforth referred to as ODM) leader, Raila Odinga, on 9th March, 2018 elicited diverse discourse on the phenomenon. The print media ...

    • Multidisciplinary Explorations of Corohysteria Caused by the COVID-2019 Pandemic 

      Isatu Ramatu Bangura, Ishmael I Munene, Jafred Muyaka, Joseph Lansana Kormoh, Omosefe Oyekanmi, Cecy Edijala Balogun, Harrison Adewale Idowu, Gregory Obinna Ugbo, Henry Chigozie Duru, Chinwe Beatrice Ezeoke, Rosemary Oyinlola Popoola, Simon Gisege Omare, Pamela Oloo, Yakub Adams, Alie Kunda, Hadizat Audu Salihu, Osman Kabba, Henrietta Eshalomi, Emmanuel Vincent Nelson Kallon, JP Afamefuna Ifedi, Feyisitan Ijimakinwa, Rachael M Rudolph, Collence T Chisita, Nyarai P Chibanda, Cecilia T Olugbara, Moeketsi Letseka, John Idriss Lahai (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022-04-21)
      This multidisciplinary volume includes an international roster of contributors who explore how mass hysteria has emerged among people across the globe as a consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic. The contributors provide ...

    • Phonemic Representation and Transcription for Speech to Text Applications for Under-resourced Indigenous African Languages: The Case of Kiswahili 

      Awino, Ebbie; Wanzare, Lilian; Muchemi, Lawrence; Wanjawa, Barack; Ombui, Edward; Indede, Florence; McOnyango, Owen; Okal, Benard (Cornell University, 2022-10-29)
      Building automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems is a challenging task, especially for underresourced languages that need to construct corpora nearly from scratch and lack sufficient training data. It has emerged that ...

    • Politeness in nonverbal communication: a commentary on non-verbal communication in a linguistics classroom context in a selected Kenyan university 

      ABAYA, Ruth; ONGARORA, David; MAGONYA, Lilian (European Journal of Applied Linguistics Studies, 2023-07-05)
      The aim of this article was to explain the effects of politeness as entailed in nonverbal language use in the instructional process. Non-verbal communication skills also known as silent language, include all behaviours ...

    • Politeness Strategies in Computer Mediated Communication (CMC): 

      ABAYA, Ruth; MAGONYA, Lilian; ONGARORA, David (Al-Kindupublishers, 2023-08-13)
      This paper examines the politeness theory in the light of Austin & Searle’s speech act theory as reflected in CMC between students and their lecturers or supervisors. Thus politeness aspects were analyzed as enacted in ...

    • Pseudo-Reduplication in Lukisa Dialect 

      Oyoko Amos Maina, Atieno Jackline Okelo, Ogoti David Ongarora (East African Scholars Publisher, Kenya, 2022)
      : Reduplication is a grammatical aspect found in a wide range of African languages and it is sometimes interchangeably used with repetition. Reduplication is both a morphological and a phonological process of forming a ...

    • Form of Idioms which are Susceptible to Misinterpretation by the Fans of Witimbule Programme in Radio Mambo FM 

      Chenenje SL, Ongarora DO, Okelo JA (Indiana, 2023-03-03)
      Idioms are notoriously applicable in Witimbule Programme of Radio Mambo FM broadcast among the fans from the Luhya speaking communities to make their language native-like, for face-saving and regulation of human behavior. ...

    • Phonemic Representation and Transcription for Speech to Text Applications for Under-resourced Indigenous African Languages: The Case of Kiswahili 

      Awino Ebbie, Wanzare Lilian, Muchemi Lawrence , Wanjawa Barack, Ombui Edward, Indede Florence , McOnyango Owen, Okal Benard. (arxiv, 2022-10-29)
      Building automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems is a challenging task, especially for underresourced languages that need to construct corpora nearly from scratch and lack sufficient training data. It has emerged that ...

    • Coordinate Ellipsis in EkeGusii: An Overview 

      Omari, Robert Otieno, Evans Gesura Mecha, David Ogoti Ongarora (Jadavpur Journal of Languages and Linguistics, 2019)
      This paper gives the distributional characteristics of coordinate elliptical constructions in EkeGusii. The syntax of the constructions is given using a Phase theoretic approach, one of the current theoretical constructs ...

    • Ekegusii Subject and Object Markers: Affixes or Clitics? 

      Mayaka, James Mboga, Emily Ayieta Ondondo, David Ogoti Ongarora (Human Resource Management Academic Research Society, 2019)
      Bantu languages are known for their agglutinative nature and complex verbal morphology. A single verbal complex has several affixes including the subject markers (SMs) and object markers (OMs). The precise status of the ...

    • A Pragmatic Analysis of Impoliteness Forms and Strategies in Ekegusii Arbitration Discourse, Kenya 

      Ongarora David, DENNIS ONGARORA, G Damaris Nyakoe (Accelerating the world's research., 2020)
      Politeness is a pragmatic concept that assumes mutually co-orperative behavior considerateness for others and polished behaviour in verbal interactions. Politeness guards against harming the hearer and speaker’s self-esteem ...

    • Sexism of the Jiko (Cooking Stove), Food and Sexuality: The Fuzzy Conceptual Boundary 

      Magonya Achieng' Lilian (Linguistics and Literature Studies, 2019)
      This paper re-examines the Jiko 1 as a symbol of femininity within the East African region. In the Kenyan society, jikos serve as charcoal based ceramic stoves used for cooking in virtually all households. The goal of ...

    • Comparing Pedagogy in Kenya’s Public Universities 

      Susan M Kilonzo, Kennedy Onkware, Pamela A Oloo, Simon G Omare (CODESRIA, 2021)
      Past studies have shown that the increased enrolment of students in public universities has not been matched with supporting human and technical resources. This has affected the quality of teaching and learning. This article ...

    • Influence of monitoring and evaluation frameworks on performance of public agricultural projects in Galana Kilifi county, Kenya 

      Ocharo D. R., Rambo C. & B. Ojwang (European Journal of Physical and Agricultural Sciences, 2020)
      The objective of the study was to establish how monitoring and evaluation frameworks influence performance of public agricultural projects in Galana Kilifi County, Kenya. Monitoring and evaluation frameworks was measured ...

    • Pragmatic Exploration of Social Media Images on Interpretation Aiming at Facebook Users in Kenya: Political Discourse 

      Manyala A. Queenter ; Dr. Yakub Adams & Sr. Dr. Achieng A. Lucy (Journal of African Interdisciplinary Studies, 2020)
      This article sought to address the gap in empirical research related to pragmatic exploration of social media images on interpretation focusing on Facebook users in Kenya: political discourse. In order to achieve this, ...

    • Linguistic Conceptualizations of Disease Among the Luo of Kenya 

      Oduor Ojwang Benson (Sage Publications, 2018)
      The region inhabited by the Luo ethnic group in Kenya is disease endemic. However, disease awareness initiatives register low acceptance due to the sociocultural images of disease and illness conceptualized in the local ...