This course is concerned with the analysis of the structure of words in general and of Kiswahili word in particular. After introducing the relevant meta-language involving basic concepts such as morpheme, allomorph, root, affix, etc, the inflection and derivation followed by selected topics in Kiswahili morphology including verbal nominal, adjectival and prepositional forms. Special attention will be paid to the interaction between morphology and phonology in discussing any emergent morphophonemic relations.
an awareness of the position of morphology within the framework of general linguistics (ii) basic morphological meta-language to enable him/her analyze Kiswahili morphology as well as discuss related issues (iii) strategies for identifying morphemes and allomorphs in any language
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