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Mncwango, Elliot Mthembeni

Faculty: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Department: General Linguistics
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9292-5008
Research Interest(s): Syntax, Psycholinguistics, Language policy, Translation studies.
Active Research Project(s): Development of the speaking skill among high school learners. How the continued use of English-only instruction in Higher Education infringes students’ rights and perpetuates prejudice.
Active Community Engagement: Reading and writing club high school learners.
Biography: To be Added
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    A contrastive analysis of articles in English and demonstratives in isiZulu
    2022
     | AOSIS Publishing
    An analysis of the use of demonstratives in isiZulu (izabizwana zokukhomba) has shown that they go beyond the known deictic functions of demonstratives as used in other languages like English. In isiZulu, demonstratives tend to also denote specificity, a function normally performed by the definite article in English. This article, therefore, compares the functions of articles in English to those of demonstratives in isiZulu, with the aim to demonstrate the similarities in terms of use between the two languages. This added function of demonstratives, it is argued, may account for some of the errors in English second language learners’ use of articles, as evidenced by data from written exercises of learners whose first language isisiZulu. The findings suggest that second language learners of English tend to confuse articles because of the differences between the two languages, especially during their(learners’) interlanguage stage. Contribution: The article highlights a significant difference in the use of demonstratives between English and isiZulu due to the added function of specificity in isiZulu demonstrative (isabizwana sokukhomba) which is performed by the definite article in English. It also demonstrates how, without an article system, isiZulu can convey meaning like any language with an article system.
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