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Item Accounting for Post-Verbal Affixes on the Kĩmwĩmbĩ Verb(Research on Humanities and Social Sciences, 2016) Kĩnyua,AnnHidah and Mũriũngi, PeterBantu languages are known to cluster affixes on the verb root, some before the root and others after the verb root. Each of these affixes carries some meaning that contributes to the final meaning of the verb. This raises the question as to whether there are any principles that guide these combinations, and whether these affixes occur in any particular order. This paper is an account of all the suffixes that may occur on the Kĩmwĩmbĩ verb, as well as the order in which they occur, starting with the plugs that are idiomatic with the root and on outwards to the affix that occurs farthest from the root. The semantic import of these morphemes has also been dwelt upon as most of them are valency-changing. The paper also presents the variations in their occurrences, the associated phonological and syntactic processes as well as the constraints surrounding their occurrences. The population for the study was all Kĩmwĩmbĩ verbs containing post- verbal affixes and data for the study was obtained from respondents from Tharaka-Nithi sub-county, Kenya, who are competent speakers of Kĩmwĩmbĩ and who were purposively sampled. The instrument of data collection was a structure generation exercise based on Kĩmwĩmbĩ verbs. Data was also gathered using introspective reports. Researcher-generated structures were also instrumental in informing the analysis. This being a qualitative and descriptive study, data was analyzed in terms of words, phrases and sentences and rules were developed and discussed to account for the affix manifestation on the verbs. The data has been presented in the light of the Principles and Parameters theory. The results demonstrate that suffix occurrence on the agglutinated verb is orderly relative to the first affix to occur after the root. This study contributes new data for the continuing analysis of Kĩmwĩmbĩ, a language that is yet to be fully analyzed. It also contributes to the linguistic theory by advancing knowledge on the morphology of Bantu verbs and the typology of African languagesItem CDEV 00140: BASISC FUNCTIONS OF MANAGEMENT(2023-04-13) CHUKA UNIVERSITYItem CDEV 0140: BASIC FUNCTIONS OF MANAGEMENT(0023-04-13) CHUKA UNIVERSITYItem CDEV 0141: PRINCIPLES OF DISASTER MANAGEMENT(0023-04-13) CHUKA UNIVERSITYItem CDEV 0141: PRINCIPLES OF DISASTER MANAGEMENT(0023-04-13) CHUKA UNIVERSITYItem CDEV 0209: COMMUNITY HEALTH(CHUKA UNIVERSITY, 0023-08-28) CHUKA UNIVERSITYItem CDEV 0210: FAMILY STUDIES(CHUKA UNIVERSITY, 0023-04-13) CHUKA UNIVERSITYItem CDEV 223: PARTICIPATORY METHODOLOGIES IN COMMUNITY(CHUKA UNIVERSITY, 2023-04-13) CHUKA UNIVERSITYItem CDEV 250: COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AND ECOTOURISM(CHUKA UNIVERSITY, 2023-08-30) CHUKA UNIVERSITYItem CDEV 252: SOCIAL MARKETING AND DEVELOPMENT(CHUKA UNIVERSITY, 2023-08-31) CHUKA UNIVERSITYItem Creation of Identities in Political Conflict: Kenya’s Newspaper Discourse(International Journal on Studies in English Language and Literature (IJSELL), 2016) Karuri,Mary ,Muriungi PeterThis article looks into the construction of political identities in the discourse of two Kenyan newspaper headline stories covering the period of the Kenyan Coalition Government formed in 2008 to stem political conflict that arose after the disputed elections of 2007.It focuses on the two principals of the coalition government, President Mwai Kibaki and Prime Minister Raila Odinga. Using a Critical Discourse Analysis(CDA) approach, the study analyses newspaper headline stories of the two leading newspapers in Kenya, Daily Nation and The Standard to gauge how the newspapers created identities for the two principals in the context of the political situation that existed then. The Prime Minister (PM) Raila Odinga is seen as a hero but also a victim of political forces. He is also evaluated as a peacemaker who quells conflicts brought about by his co-principal. President Kibaki, on the hand is depicted as an opportunist, anti-reformist and an ineffective leader. The newspapers exploit discourse strategies such as evaluative lexicon, structuring, schematic form and metaphor to create the identities and to persuade the audience to adopt a certain ideological stance.Item ECDE 448: CHALLENGES OF FAMILY IN A CHANGING SOCIETY(CHUKA UNIVERSITY, 2023-04-13) CHUKA UNIVERSITYItem ECDI 343: PHYSICS SUBJECT METHODS STREAMS(CHUKA UNIVERSITY, 2023-04-13) CHUKA UNIVERSITYItem EDCI 211: PRINCIPLES AND THEORY OF CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT(CHUKA UNIVERSITY, 2023-04-26) CHUKA UNIVERSITYItem EDCI 332: HISTORY AND GOVERNANCE SUBJECT METHODS(2023-04-12) CHUKA UNIVERSITYItem EDCI 333: RELIGIOUS EDUCATION SUBJECT METHODS(2023-04-13) CHUKA UNIVERSITYItem EDCI 344: METHODS OF TEACHING AGRICULTURE(CHUKA UNIVERSITY, 2023-04-13) CHUKA UNIVERSITYItem EDFO 111: HISTORY OF EDUCATION(CHUKA UNIVERSITY, 2023-04-25) CHUKA UNIVERSITYItem EDFO 112: SOCIOLOGY OF EDUCATION(CHUKA UNIVERSITY, 2023-04-11) CHUKA UNIVERSITYItem ENGL 103: ORIGIN AND SPREAD OF ENGLISH(CHUKA UNIVERSITY, 2023-08-30) CHUKA UNIVERSITY