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    The interplay of Socio- Historical and Linguistics factors on structural borrowing from Kiswahili to Chimalaba
    (University of Dar es salaam, 2018) Amani, Hamisi
    This study addresses the interplay of socio-historical and linguistics factors on structural borrowing in Chimalaba. It inquiries to determine the types of structural borrowing exhibited in Chimalaba and to establish the manner in which all factors interplay to promote structural borrowing in Chimalaba. The study uses multi-factorial approach under Thomason’s (2001) Borrowing Scale, which offers correlations between factors and types of structural borrowings in terms of intensity of contact, for exploring factors on structural borrowing and the Principle of Functional Explanation (PEE) by Bakker (2008) which specifies the division of labour and causal relationship of factors to determine the interplay of factors on structural borrowing data. Data were collected through interviews, audio recordings, targeted elicitation and previously collected corpora. Data were collected from seven villages on Mgao, Mkungu, Msangamkuu, Msimbati, Mikindani and Naumbu form Mtwara Rural District and Sudi from Lindi Rural District, these are villages which are considered to be the main Malaba centres. The findings indicate that apart from previously attested structural features, more other features including derivation affixes; function words and slightly altered word order have been discovered in this study. The findings also show that there are number of socio-historical and linguistic factors which have worked jointly to advance linguistic borrowing to structural features from Kiwahili whereas linguistics factors motivate speakers to borrowing in Chimalaba. In their interplay, socio-historical factors motivate speakers to borrow structural features from Kiswahili whereas linguistics factors govern and limit the maxing up of the borrowed features and their intergration in the system of Chimalaba. They also display a clear division of labour and hierarehy in their interplay. It is recommended in this study that there is a need to carry on further investigation on semantic profile of the borrowed features to see if thei meaning and functions have been altered in the Recipient Language (RL). Also an empirical inquiry is needed to examine issues like Numeral, phraseology and pragmatic borrowing because these aspects have not been addressed
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    The interplay of socio-historical and linguistic factors on structural borrowing from Kiswahili to Chimalaba.
    (University of Dar es Salaam, 2018) Amani, Hamisi
    This study addresses the interplay of socio-historical and linguistic factors on structural borrowing in Chimalaba. It inquires to determine the types of structural borrowing exhibited in Chimalaba, to discover socio-historical and linguistic factors which have advanced linguistic borrowing to structural features in Chimalaba and to establish the manner in which all factors interplay to promote structural borrowing in Chimalaba. The study uses multi-factorial approach under Thomason’s (2001) Borrowing Scale, which offers correlations between factors and types of structural borrowings in terms of intensity of contact, for exploring factors on structural borrowing and the Principle of Functional Explanation (PFE) by Bakker (2008) which specifies the division of labour and causal relationship of factors to determine the interplay of factors on structural borrowing. Data were collected through interviews, audio recordings, targeted elicitation and previously collected corpora. Data were collected from seven villages of Mgao, Mkungu, Msangamkuu, Msimbati, Mikindani and Naumbu form Mtwara Rural District and Sudi from Lindi Rural District. These are villages which are considered to be the main Malaba centres. The findings indicate that apart from previously attested structural features, more other features including derivational affixes; function words and slightly altered word order have been discovered in this study. The findings also show that there are a number of socio-historical and linguistic factors which have worked jointly to advance linguistic borrowing to structural features in Chimalaba. In this facet, structural borrowing in Chimalaba is a product of both socio-historical and linguistic factors. It has also been found that socio-historical and linguistic factors interplay in a complementary manner to promote structural borrowing in Chimalaba. In their interplay, socio-historical factors motivate speakers to borrow structural features from Kiswahili whereas linguistic factors govern and limit the mixing up of the borrowed features and their integration in the system of Chimalaba. They also display a clear division of labour and hierarchy in their interplay. It is recommended in this study that there is a need to carry on further investigation on semantic profile of the borrowed features to see if their meaning and functions have been altered in the Recipient Language (RL). Also an empirical inquiry is needed to examine issues like numeral, phraseology and pragmatic borrowing because these aspects have not been addressed in this study but are considered to be common in contact situations involving structural borrowing.