Current trends in Zimbabwean linguistics
Subtitle: a festschrift for Chief Kumbirai Mkanganwi
By: edited by Victor Mugari, Laston Mukaro and Emmanuel Chabata
Publisher: University of Zimbabwe Publications
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Harare, Zimbabwe
Language: eng
Number of pages: 214
ISBN-13: 9781779201164
Subjects: Shona language; Grammar; Linguistics
Notes: "This book was compiled in honor of Chief Kumbirai Gumokumo Mkanganwi, one of the pioneers of Zimbabwes modern linguistics. Chief Mkanganwi was a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Linguistics, University of Zimbabwe, until his retirement in 2012."--Page 4 of cover.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Events in ChiShona morphological periphrastic causatives / Victor Mugari, Laston Mukaro and Annastacia Dhumukwa; title: Official national languages of Zimbabwe in the linguistic landscape of the nation : a geosemiotics approach / Zvinashe Mamvura and Pedzisai Mashiri; title: Graffiti as an agent for effecting sexual behavioral change among female students in Zimbabwe's high schools / Hugh Mangeya; title: Some aspects of unaccusativity and unergativity in Shona morpho-syntax : a formal analysis / Francis Matambirofa, Patricia Mabugu and Victor Mugari; title: Processing spoken corpora : challenges and errors in the transcription of oral data for the Shona linguistic corpus / Emmanuel Chabata; title: Nominal reanalysis in Ndebele : a case of noun reclassification / Progress Dube and Lickel Ndebele; title: The morpho-syntax of auxiliaries in Shona : an analytical description / Francis Matambirofa; title: Shona tones : a quest for iconic representation / Herbert Mushangwe; title: Frame semantics as cognitive meaning building in Shona / Laston Mukaro, Lovemore Mutonga and Victor Mugari; title: Speech outcome after cleft palate surgery : a case study of a twelve-year-old Shona-speaking girl / Lloyd Makumbe, Patricia Mabugu and Catherine Sibanda; title: Appraisal in Shona news reporting : a case of Kwayedza newspaper in Zimbabwe / Ernest Jakaza and Marianna W. Visser; title: An exploration of Shona predicate extensions order of precedence phenomenon : implications for argument structure / Francis Matambirofa; title: Denoting HIV/AIDS : the language of stigma in the Shona language / Liveson Tatira; title: A comparative study of Shona and Chinese loanwords from English / Herbert Mushangwe and Pretty Tahwa; title: Charity begins at home : a case of family language policy in Zimbabwe and the sustainability of Shona / Patricia Mabugu, Catherine Sibanda and Esther Chivero; title: Gopo's cognitive model of translation / Tapiwa Loveson Gopo.