Keeping in Step With Modern Times: A Comprehensive Account of Lexical Adoptives in Icibemba

by Mubanga E Kashoki

Prof. Mubanga E. Kashoki deals with a subject that is often neglected in linguistics - lexical borrowings, and how they enrich a language that adopts them. The study is organised into four parts, Introduction; Glossary of Lexical Adoptives in Icibemba; The Sociocultural Context of Lexical Adoptives in Icibemba; and Phonological and Morphological incorporation in processes involved in lexical adoption in Icibemba.

166 pages, Paperback

First published December 27, 2012

Reviews

[Mpezilwe Simukoko · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very insightful. It was good to find out the origin of some of the common words we use in everyday Bemba