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Item Bantu Multiple Object' constructions(Elsevier, 1993) Rugemalira, Josephat M.Les constructions dites à double complément d'objet en langues bantoues constituent un défi à la définition de l'objet. Ni les tests traditionnels ni les modèles génératifs ne sont à même de donner une explication exempte de contradictions. Convaincu que le vrai problème pour une analyse de la langue naturelle est de mettre en relation les arguments prédicatifs avec les syntagmes d'une construction, l'A. adopte la théorie de la différenciation argumentale, qui interprète ces constructions comme résultant de l'interaction entre les règles de l'ordre des mots, les règles de l'accord grammatical et les propriétés sémantiques inhérentes aux syntagmesItem The Communication Skills Unit and the Language Problem at the University of Dar Es Salaam(1990) Rugemalira, Josephat M.Item The English Language Support Project in Tanzania(1990) Lwaitama, A. F.; Rugemalira, Josephat M.Item A Grammar of Runyambo(2005) Rugemalira, Josephat M.Item Private Education and Self-reliance in Tanzania(2001) Rugemalira, Josephat M.Item Reduplication and Semantic Creativity: The Intensive in Bantu(2003) Rugemalira, Josephat M.Item Reflections on Recent Developments in Language Policy in Tanzania(1990) Rugemalira, Josephat M.; Rubagumya, Casmir M.; Kapinga, M. K.; Lwaitama, A. F.; Tetlow, J. G.Item Researching and Documenting the Languages of Tanzania(University of Hawaii Press, 2008) Muzale, Henry R. T.; Rugemalira, Josephat M.This paper describes the challenges that researchers have encountered during six years of implementing a research and documentation project for the languages of Tanzania. It discusses the methods evolved by the project researchers for the production of a language atlas for Tanzania and presents preliminary results from the research. The results show that the language with the most native speakers, Sukuma, has twice as many as its closest rival, Kiswahili. The paper also presents an account of the research for documenting the grammasr and vocabularies of the languages of Tanzania. The expected impact of this particular form of documentation, as well as the limits, are discussed. It is argued that a language needs to be unchained from politically imposed shackles in order for a society to reap the full benefits of its cultural resources.Item Runyambo – Kiswahili – English and English – Runyambo – Kiswahili Lexicon(2002) Rugemalira, Josephat M.Item The Structure of the Bantu Noun Phrase(2007) Rugemalira, Josephat M.Studies of the noun in Bantu languages have traditionally concentrated on the morphology of the noun with its elaborate class system and the underlying semantic strands. When treatment of the noun and its dependents is undertaken or mentioned it is usually with special focus on the concord system (Nurse & Philippson 2003). Rarely have scholars paid attention to the syntax of the noun and its dependents.1 References to the structure of the noun phrase are usually very brief (see among others Massamba et al. 1999, Harjula 2004, Ngonyani 2003, Meeuwis 1998, Mous 2004). Part of the interest in the structure of the noun phrase relates to questions of syntactic categories and their determination. Of interest too is the question of what recursive structures are processable in natural language. This paper discusses the syntax of the noun phrase in several Bantu languages. It examines the larger syntax of the noun and its dependent elements and addresses the following questions: (i) what elements can modify the Bantu noun and in what order? (ii) which elements can co-occur and/or recur in the modification structure and what criteria are relevant in categorizing the dependents of the noun? (iii) is there a saturation point in the modification structure?Item Theoretical and Practical Challenges in a Tanzanian English Medium Primary School(2005) Rugemalira, Josephat M.Item The Upper Limit Constraint on Argument Structure.(1997) Rugemalira, Josephat M.Item What is a Symmetrical Language? Multiple Object Constructions in Bantu(1991-07) Rugemalira, Josephat M.There exist in Bantu languages constructions with usually two and possibly three postverbal noun phrase arguments. Such constructions are usually called'double object'constructions. Example 1 from Runyambo is typical. 1 omukzizi akasiiga abaana ...