Submitted as a partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of master of arts in African Language and Linguistics as the National University of Lesotho in the department of AFrican Languages and Literature.This thesis provides a linguistic analysis of Sesotho personal names that\ud have the structure of sentences. It examines the internal structure of these\ud names, their linguistic status and their meanings.\ud The internal structure of the names is discussed in the second chapter of the\ud thesis. In this chapter the names are categorized into the declarative names,\ud the interrogative names and the imperative names. Each category of names\ud is assigned a word structure rule (WSR) that describes its structure. The\ud componen...
Naming can sometimes be associated with particular situations or someone’s birth. This study intends...
The study examined grammatical properties of proverbial personal names in Dagbani. The study utilize...
This article investigates the naming practice of the GÇ ui and GÇ ana Khôespeaking people, inhabiti...
This study explored Sesotho personal names with clause complex feature as authentic social discourse...
The goal of the paper is to provide a linguistic description of the structure of personal names in a...
This study examined how the quantitative and the numerative features of the nominal group described ...
The objective of this article is to present the identifying features of the Northern Sotho proper na...
This article treats problems which have long been subject to debate : do proper names have meanings ...
This study focused on the syntactic analysis of proverbial personal names in Dagbani. Among the Dagb...
International audienceThis chapter provides a definition of names and a discussion of how the semant...
‘Names ’ are more than a ‘word ’ or words by which a person, animal, place or thing is known, and do...
Socio-onomastics is defined as the sociolinguistic study of names. It focuses on name use in human i...
Naming is an important act because a name is a marker of identity. Therefore, naming systems and pra...
Naming is not just an act of linguistic labeling by which speakers of a language identify the entiti...
This paper sought to address family names among the Akan of Ghana and considers naming as an importa...
Naming can sometimes be associated with particular situations or someone’s birth. This study intends...
The study examined grammatical properties of proverbial personal names in Dagbani. The study utilize...
This article investigates the naming practice of the GÇ ui and GÇ ana Khôespeaking people, inhabiti...
This study explored Sesotho personal names with clause complex feature as authentic social discourse...
The goal of the paper is to provide a linguistic description of the structure of personal names in a...
This study examined how the quantitative and the numerative features of the nominal group described ...
The objective of this article is to present the identifying features of the Northern Sotho proper na...
This article treats problems which have long been subject to debate : do proper names have meanings ...
This study focused on the syntactic analysis of proverbial personal names in Dagbani. Among the Dagb...
International audienceThis chapter provides a definition of names and a discussion of how the semant...
‘Names ’ are more than a ‘word ’ or words by which a person, animal, place or thing is known, and do...
Socio-onomastics is defined as the sociolinguistic study of names. It focuses on name use in human i...
Naming is an important act because a name is a marker of identity. Therefore, naming systems and pra...
Naming is not just an act of linguistic labeling by which speakers of a language identify the entiti...
This paper sought to address family names among the Akan of Ghana and considers naming as an importa...
Naming can sometimes be associated with particular situations or someone’s birth. This study intends...
The study examined grammatical properties of proverbial personal names in Dagbani. The study utilize...
This article investigates the naming practice of the GÇ ui and GÇ ana Khôespeaking people, inhabiti...