Lionel Posthumus
Biographic Data
| ID | 10294638 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lionel Posthumus |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lionel |
| FAMILY NAME | Posthumus |
| SIGNATURE | POSTHUMUS L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Johannesburg |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5553-5318 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
A systemized explanation for vowel phoneme change in the inadmissible phonological structure /VV/ in Zulu
This article offers a systematic and comprehensive account of vowel changes that take place in the inadmissible phonological sequence /VV/ within a word in Zulu. Instead of discussing vowel changes in terms of vowel coalescence, vowel elision and glide insertion (as is conventionally done) this approach discusses the vowel changes with regard to the position of the two juxtaposed vowel phonemes on the vowel chart. The resultant form is predictabl…
Greeting and saying farewell in two Bantu languages
The article discusses greetings and farewells of a typical conversation in two Bantu languages: Swahili and Zulu. The conversation usually comprises the greeting followed by the enquiry about each other’s well-being, the actual conversation, and then the parting farewell. The article outlines the importance of nonverbal, sociolinguistic, and situational factors of the salutation. The objectives of the paper are to explore the feasibility of consi…
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Greeting and saying farewell in two Bantu languages
The article discusses greetings and farewells of a typical conversation in two Bantu languages: Swahili and Zulu. The conversation usually comprises the greeting followed by the enquiry about each other’s well-being, the actual conversation, and then the parting farewell. The article outlines the importance of nonverbal, sociolinguistic, and situational factors of the salutation. The objectives of the paper are to explore the feasibility of consi…
A systemized explanation for vowel phoneme change in the inadmissible phonological structure /VV/ in Zulu
This article offers a systematic and comprehensive account of vowel changes that take place in the inadmissible phonological sequence /VV/ within a word in Zulu. Instead of discussing vowel changes in terms of vowel coalescence, vowel elision and glide insertion (as is conventionally done) this approach discusses the vowel changes with regard to the position of the two juxtaposed vowel phonemes on the vowel chart. The resultant form is predictabl…
Linguistics (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Zulu (2 works) · Bantu languages (1 work) · History (1 work) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (1 work) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (1 work) · Mathematics (1 work) · Mid vowel (1 work) · Phonetics and Phonology Research (1 work)