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 Leon Ike Oduor, KANUNI YA UAINISHAJI WA VITENZI (VERB SUBCATEGORIZATION) Aina ya vitenzi Vikuu,Visaidizi,Halisi,Sambamba,Vishirikishi na Vitenzi jina. Vitenzi ni maneno yanayotumiwa kuarifu matukio,matendo,michakato (process) na hali Fulani. Wanasarufi kwenye matawi tofauti kama vile mofolojia,sintaksia na semantiki huwa na sababu tofauti za kuainisha vitenzi,nomino,vivumishi n.k.Mwanamofolojia kwa mfano ata ainisha vitenzi pengine kwa kutaka kuonyesha miundo tofauti ya vitenzi ilhali kwa mwana semantiki uainishaji wa vitenzi hufanywa kwa kuzingatia maana zinazobebwa kwenye vitenzi tofauti,kwa mwanasintaksia kusudi kuu ya uainishaji wa vitenzi ni kubainisha mahitaji ya kimuundo ya vitenzi ili kukamilisha muundo wa sentensi. Wanasintaksia uainisha vitenzi kwa kutumia dhana ya uelekezi (transitivity). Kisintaksia vitenzi vinainishwa kwenye vikundi vitatu pekee. i) Vitenzi visioelekezi (intransitive) ii) Vitenzi vielekezi (transitive) iii) vitenzi vielekezi maradufu (di-transitive) U...

    Leon .I. Oduor   Journal of Linguistics and Language in Education Vol. 9, Number 2                Formation and Syntax of Contractions in Kiswahili with  Special Emphasis on Noun-Possessive Combination                            Abstract  Kiswahili contractions may be formed in various ways with a freestanding content word, a number figure or different word combinations with varying reducing degrees, sometimes becoming monosyllabic, with only a vowel or vowel-consonant combination. Most contractions are attached to host words to form permissible combinations. These attachments exhibit behaviour that implies that they are joined to the preceding or succeeding form in the lexicon, as affixes do (e.g. -yo from yako ‘your/yours’ is joined to baba ‘father’ to form babayo ‘your father’). Paradoxically, though, they behave syntactically like a group of...