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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| Format: | Dissertation |
| Language: | Eng |
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Faculty of Humanities
2019
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/30509 |