Ekegusii
Questions for further study
The following questions can be used for further study in an undergraduate setting:
- What is the degree of language shift/language maintenance and ethnolinguistic vitality of Ekegusii speakers?
- How has the linguistic history of the Southwest Kenya region evolved?
- What does a comparative study of consonant and vowel systems of Bantu languages in the region look like?
- What are the theoretical underpinnings of Ekegusii prefix dissimilation?
- Which phonological rules operate in Ekegusii prefixation and word classes?
The following are prompts for further study directed to graduate students:
- What is the nature of the lexical representation of tone in Ekegusii?
- Can we have tone spreading or delinking rules that rely on low tones as inputs?
- What is the importance of the lexicon as a repository of cultural data and its potential to contribute to our understanding of human cognition?
- How does tone vary in different Ekegusii sentence structures? Like
- – Polar questions
- – Wh-questions
- – Declarative sentences
- – Subordinate clauses
- – Yes/No questions
- – Alternative questions
- What are the acoustic characteristics of Ekegusii consonants?