Sam Mchombo

Biographic Data

ID1684118
NAMESam Mchombo
GIVEN NAMESSam
FAMILY NAMEMchombo
SIGNATUREMCHOMBO S
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of California, Berkeley
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS11
TOTAL CITATIONS142
WORKS AS AUTHOR11
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1980
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX3

  • Reimagined AI pedagogy for equity and diversity in multilingual classrooms

    Open AccessZ Babaci-Wilhite, Andrea Gasparini et al.ARTICLEProspects2025

    This article examines how technology can help bridge vocabulary gaps identified by Hart and Risley (2003) at Rice University, where children from different socioeconomic backgrounds were exposed to vastly different word counts. Learning languages with shared vocabulary can accelerate acquisition and be cost-effective. Traditional audio and video tools have limitations, but Artificial Intelligence (AI), particularly through Natural Language Proces…

  • Linear order constraints on split NPs in Chichewa

    Open AccessSam MchomboARTICLEZAS Papers in Linguistics2006

    This paper focuses on restrictions on the ordering of internal constituents of noun phrases in Chichewa, especially when those constituents are discontinuous. The motivation for discontinuity of the NP constituents will be given, together with discussion of constructions that can be subsumed under this rubric but that do not really involve discontinuity in the canonical sense. These are constructions where a topic NP in a left periphery position …

  • Sports and Development in Malawi

    Sam MchomboARTICLESoccer and Society2006Cited by: 2References: 2

    This essay examines alternative strategies available to developing countries in the face of structural barriers impeding conventional economic growth. One of these avenues is through sport. The exploitation of sport for purposes of development are turned on their head by the efforts of the author to inculcate a sense of civic duty in return for sporting opportunities above and beyond what could normally be expected. Through the enticement of spor…

  • Configuring topic in the left periphery

    Open AccessSam A Mchombo, Sam Mchombo et al.ARTICLEZAS Papers in Linguistics2004

    Chicheŵa, a Bantu language of East Central Africa, displays mixed properties of configurationality such as the existence of VP, on the one hand, and discontinuous constituents (DCs), on the other. In the present work we examine the discourse and syntactic properties of DCs, and show that DCs in Chicheŵa arise naturally from the discourse-configurational nature of the language. We argue that the fronted DCs in Chicheŵa are contrastive topics that …

  • Reciprocal Expressions and the Concept of Reciprocity

    Open AccessMary Dalrymple, Makoto Kanazawa et al.ARTICLELinguistics and Philosophy1998

  • The lexical integrity principle

    Open AccessJoan Bresnan, Sam A Mchombo et al.ARTICLENatural Language and Linguistic…1995Cited by: 33References: 22

  • Morphotactic Constraints in the Chichewa Verb Stem

    Open AccessLarry M Hyman, Sam MchomboARTICLEProceedings of the Annual Meeting…1992

    Proceedings of the Eighteenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: General Session and Parasession on The Place of Morphology in a Grammar (1992), pp. 350-364

  • Object Extraction and the Accessibility of Thematic Information

    Open AccessAlex Asina, Sam A Mchombo et al.ARTICLEProceedings of the Annual Meeting…1991

    Proceedings of the Seventeenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: General Session and Parasession on The Grammar of Event Structure (1991), pp. 15-29

  • The syntax of applicatives in Chiche?a

    Open AccessAlex Alsina, Sam MchomboARTICLENatural Language and Linguistic…1990Cited by: 9References: 4

  • Topic, Pronoun, and Agreement in Chicheŵa

    Joan Bresnan, Sam A Mchombo et al.ARTICLELanguage1987Cited by: 98

  • Reciprocal verbs in Chicheŵa

    Open AccessSam A Mchombo, Sam Mchombo et al.ARTICLEBulletin of the School of…1980

    I.o. The phenomenon of reciprocity has, within the framework of generative grammar, been dealt with either as an aspect of sentence coordination as in the following:1(a) the boy saw the girl(b) the girl saw the boy(c) the boy and the girl saw each other