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An examination of how loanwords in a corpus of spoken and written contemporary isiXhosa are incorporated into the noun class system of isiXhosa

Lexical change is a natural phenomenon for all of the world’s languages. This change can be viewed in terms of language contact, technological innovation and the adoption of new lifestyles. Whereas in the past isiXhosa, a Nguni language spoken in South Africa, borrowed words from both English and Af...

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Main Author: Futuse, Liziwe
Other Authors: Dowling, Tessa
Format: Thesis
Language:Eng
Published: School of Languages and Literatures 2019
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