Kiziwi, Kipofu na Kilema: Ubaguzi au Heshima?
Loading...
Date
1997
Authors
Journal Title
Journal ISSN
Volume Title
Publisher
Abstract
The deaf, the blind and the lame: discrimination or respect?" In this article we investigate
what the assigment of these (and other) words to the KI-class means We depart from the
common explanation which says that the KI-class here signals contempt since it is not the
typical class for human beings in SwahilL We then analyse the surprisingly large corpus of
nouns referring to people in the KI-class and show how they got assigned to this class This
leads us to a more general statement about the meaning of a noun class. The final section
Description
Keywords
Citation
Mreta, A., 1997. Kiziwi, kipofu na kilema: ubaguzi au heshima?.