Research Guides: Swahili Language and Culture Acquisitions at Columbia: Linguistics

Linguistics

Amidu, Assibi A. Argument and predicate relations in Kiswahili : a new analysis of transitiveness in Bantu. Köln : Rüdiger Köppe, 2001. (505 p.)
Amidu, Assibi A. Classes in Kiswahili : a study of their forms and implications. Koln : R. Koppe, c1997. (440 p.)
Amidu, Assibi A. Matrix nominal phrases in Kiswahili Bantu : a study of their effects on argument syntax. Köln : R. Köppe, c2009. (236 p.)
Amidu, Assibi A. Objects and complements in Kiswahili clauses : a study of their mechanisms and patterns. Köln : Köppe, 2013. (677 p.)
Amidu, Assibi A. Pronouns and pronominalizations in Kiswahili grammar. Series: Grammatische Analysen afrikanischer Sprachen ; Bd. 27. Köln : Köppe, 2006. ( 402 p.)
Amidu, Assibi A. Reflexives and reflexivization in Kiswahili grammar. Köln : Rüdiger Köppe, c2004. (527 p).
Amidu, Assibi A. Semantic assignment rules in Bantu classes : a reanalysis based on Kiswahili. Köln : Rüdiger Köppe, c2007. (138 p.)
Atlasi ya lugha za Tanzania. Mradi wa lugha za Tanzania. Dar es Salaam, Tanzania : Chuo Kikuu cha Dar es Salaam, 2009. (130 p.)
Baldi, Sergio. A first ethnolinguistic comparison of Arabic loanwords common to Hausa and Swahili. Napoli : Istituto universitario orientale, 1988. (83 p.)
Besha, Ruth Mfumbwa. Utangulizi wa lugha na isimu. Dar es Salaam : Macmillan Aidan, 2007. (97 p.) [Introduction to language and linguistics.]
Bosha, I. (Ibrahim) The Impact of the Arabic language on standard Swahili : Zanzibar island. Khartoum : International Center for African Studies, 2008. (96 p.)
Brain, James Lewton. Basic structure of Swahili. Occasional paper ; no. 50. [Syracuse, N.Y.] : Program of Eastern African Studies, 1969. (34 leaves)
Contini-Morava, Ellen. Discourse pragmatics and semantic categorization : the case of negation and tense-aspect with special reference to Swahili. Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 1989.
(205 p.)
Contini, Ellen. Tense and non-tense in Swahili grammar : semantic asymmetry between affirmative and negative. Ph.D. thesis--Columbia University, 1983. (2 v.: 416 leaves)
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Datta, Ansu. Sociolinguistic behaviour and social change : as illustrated by the Swahili and Bengali speech communities : a comparative study. Calcutta : Indian Publications, 1982. (108 p.)
Dhima ya kamusi katika kusanifisha lugha. Edited by J.G. Kiango. Dar es Salaam : Taasisi ya Uchunguzi wa Kiswahili, Chuo Kikuu cha Dar es Salaam, c1995. (109 p.)
Eléments de grammaire swahili : à l'usage des enseignants et des élèves des écoles normales. [Edited by] Nkiko ... [et al.]. 2e éd. Lubumbashi : Editions Impala, 1983. (124 p.)
Eliah, Victor. Kiswahili katika vyombo vya habari ndani na nje ya Tanzania. Dar es Salaam : Taasisi ya Taaluma za Kiswahili, Chuo Kikuu cha Dar es Salaam, 2019. (305 p.) [A study of the use of Swahili language in newspapers and other mass media in Tanzania and East Africa.]
Githiora, Chege J. Sheng : rise of a Kenyan Swahili vernacular. Woodbridge, Suffolk : James Currey, c2018. (220 p.)
Haddad, Adnan. L'arabe et le swahili dans la République du Zaïre : études islamiques (histoire et linguistique). Paris : Société d'édition d'enseignement superieur, c1983. (262 p.)
Kapinga, M. C. Sarufi maumbo ya Kiswahili sanifu. [Dar es Salaam] : Taasisi ya Uchunguzi wa Kiswahili, Chuo Kikuu cha Dar es Salaam, 1983. (211 p.)
Khamisi, A. M. Maendeleo ya uhusika. Dar es Salaam : Taasisi ya Uchunguzi wa Kiswahili, Chuo Kikuu cha Dar es Salaam, 2008. (231 p.)
Kiango, J. G. Bantu lexicography : a critical survey of the principles and process of constructing dictionary entries. Tokyo, Japan : Institute for the Study of Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, 2000. (228 p.)
Kihore, Yared Magori, D.P.B. Massamba, and Y.P. Msanjila. Sarufi maumbo ya Kiswahili sanifu (SAMAKISA) : sekondari na vyuo. Dar es Salaam, Tanzania: Chuo Kikuu cha Dar es Salaam, Taasisi ya Uchunguzi wa Kiswahili, 2001. (208 p.)
King'ei, Kitula G. Misingi ya isimujamii Dar es Salaam : Taasisi ya Taaluma za Kiswahili, Chuo Kikuu cha Dar es Salaam, 2010. (195 p.) [Guide to sociolinguistics.]
Kiswahili : a tool for development : the multidisciplinary approach. Eldoret Regional Workshop on Kiswahili as a Tool for Development: the Multidisciplinary Approach (1997). Department of Kiswahili and Other African Languages, Moi University and CHAKITA ; editors, Naomi L. Shitemi, Mwanakombo N. Noordin ; assistant editors, Allan L. Opijah, Davies M. Mukuria. Eldoret, Kenya : Moi University Press, 2001. (238 p.) [English and Swahili]
Kiswahili katika elimu. Wahariri Z.N. Tumbo-Masabo na E.K.F. Chiduo. Dar es Salaam : Taasisi ya Uchunguzi wa Kiswahili, 1999. (197 p.) [On the use of Swahili language in education.]
Kiswahili katika elimu ya juu. Wahariri, Ernest Sangai Mohochi, Mwenda Mukuthuria, James Omari Ontieri. Eldoret, Kenya : Moi University Press, 2019. (362 p.) [A study of the teaching and use of Swahili language in higher education in Kenya.]
Kiswahili research and development in Eastern Africa : a publication of the conference proceedings of the Inaugural RISSEA International Scientific Conference, held on 18th-20th November 2010 at Travellers Beach Hotel, Mombasa. Chief editor, Rocha Chimera. Mombasa, Kenya : National Museums of Kenya, 2011. (363 p.) [English and Swahili]
Kwon, Joung-Mi. Possession im Swahili. Köln : Institut für Afrikanistik, Universität zu Köln, 1995. (222 p.) [In German, a study of Swahili possessives.]
Leonard, Robert Andrew. The semantic system of deixis in standard Swahili. Ph.D. thesis--Columbia University, 1982. (136 leaves)
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Lodhi, Abdulaziz. Oriental influences in Swahili : a study in language and culture contacts. Göteborg, Sweden : Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis, c2000. (253 p.)
Lodhi, Abdulaziz. Oriental loanwords in Swahili. Nairobi, Kenya : Oxford University Press East Africa Limited, 2015. (180 p.)
Lugha na masuala ibuka. Wahariri, Mosol Kandagor, Samuel M. Obuchi, Noordin M. Mwanakombo. Eldoret, Kenya : Chama cha Kiswahili cha Taifa-Kenya, 2018. (276 p.)
Lugha ya Kiswahili : utafiti na maendeleo yake. Wahiriri, Mwenda Mukuthuria, Mosol Kandagor. Dar es Salaam : Chama cha Kiswahili cha Afrika Mashariki (CHAKAMA), 2018. (381 p.)
Massamba, David Phineas Bhukanda, Y.M. KIhonre, and Y.P. Msanjila. Fonolojia ya Kiswahili sanifu (FOKISA) : sekondari na vyuo. Dar es Salaam : Taasisi ya Uchunguzi wa Kiswahili, Chuo Kikuu cha Dar es Salaam, c2004. (95 p.)
Massamba, David Phineas Bhukanda. Misingi ya fonolojia. Dar es Salaam : Taasisi ya Taaluma za Kiswahili, Chuo Kikuu cha Dar es Salaam, [2012] (186 p.)
Massamba, David Phineas Bhukanda, Y.M. Kihore, J.I. Hokororo. Sarufi miundo ya Kiswahili sanifu (SAMIKISA) : sekondari na vyuo. Dar es Salaam : Taasisi ya Uchunguzi wa Kiswahili, Chuo Kikuu cha Dar es Salaam, [1999] (196 p.)
Mathooko, Petronilla Mbatha. Isimu jamii : misingi na nadharia. Nairobi : Njigua Books, c2007. (137 p.) [On sociolinguistics, foundations, and composition diversity.]
Matinde, Riro S. Dafina ya lugha isimu na nadharia : kwa sekondari, vyuo vya kati na vyuo vikuu. Mwanza, Tanzania : Serengeti Educational Publishers Ltd., 2012. (336 p.)
Mauya, Athumani B. Sahihisha Kiswahili chako. Dar es Salaam : Taasisi ya Taaluma za Kiswahili, 2020. (173 p.) [On proper usage of Swahili terms.]
Mekacha, Rugatiri D. K. Isimujamii : nadharia na muktadha wa Kiswahili. Dar es Salaam, Tanzania : Taasisi za Taaluma za Kiswahili, Chuo Kikuu cha Dar es Salaam, c2011. (236 p.) [Sociolinguistics of Kiswahili.]
Mfaume, Y. R. R. Umbuji wa kiswahili : shule za sekondari. [Dar es Salaam] : Luhimba Publishers, 2014. (224 p.) [On the teaching of Kiswahili in Tanzanian secondary schools.]
Mgullu, Richard S. Mtalaa wa isimu : fonetiki, fonolojia na mofolojia ya Kiswahili. Nairobi : Longhorn Publishers, c1999. (246 p.)
Miaka hamsini ya kiswahili nchini Kenya Wahariri, Inyani Simala, Leonard Chacha, Miriam Osore. Nairobi, Kenya : Twaweza Communications, 2014. (262 p.)
Misingi ya utungaji wa kamusi. Edited by J.S. Mdee. Dar es Salaam : Taasisi ya Uchunguzi wa Kiswahili, Chuo Kikuu cha Dar es Salaam, c1995. (107 p.)
Mpiranya, Fidele. Swahili phonology reconsidered in a diachronical perspective : the impact of stress on morphonemics and syllable structure. Koln : R. Koppe, c1995. (87 p.)
Msanjila, Y. P., Y.M. Kihore, and D.P.B. Massamba. Isimujamii : sekondari na vyuo. Dar es Salaam : Taasisi ya Uchunguzi wa Kiswahili, Chuo kikuu cha Dar es Salaam, 2009. (136 p.)
Mugaya, Tumaini Samweli. Isimujamii katika jamiilugha. Dar es Salaam, Tanzania : [publisher not identified], [2019] (217 p.) [A textbook on sociolinguistics.]
Mugaya, Tumaini Samweli. Mofologia changamani ya Kiswahili. Dodoma, Tanzania : FEX Connect Publishers, 2019. (182 p.) [On the complex morphology of the Swahili language.]
Musau, Paul Muthoka. Aspects of interphonology : the study of Kenyan learners of Swahili. Bayreuth : University of Bayreuth, c1993. (224p.)
Mwongozo kwa waandishi wa Kiswahili sanifu. Dar es Salaam,Tanzania : Baraza la Kiswahili la Taifa (BAKITA), 1994. (57 p.)
Nadharia katika taaluma ya kiswahili na lugha za kiafrika. Wahariri, Nathan Oyori Ogechi, Naomi Luchera Shitemi, Kenneth Inyani Simala. Eldoret, Kenya : Moi University Press, 2008. (436 p.) [Selected conference papers on Swahili and other African languages from first meeting of Chama Cha Afrika Mashariki (CHAKAMA), held at Moi University, Eldoret, in November 2005.]
Obuchi, Samuel M. and Ayub Mukhwana. Muundo wa Kiswahili : ngazi na vipengele. Nairobi, Kenya : A-Frame Publishers, 2010. (247 p.)
Occasional papers in linguistics = Makala za msimu katika isimu. Dar es Salaam : Languages of Tanzania (LOT) Project, University of Dar es Salaam, 2005-2012.
Ohly, Rajmund. Swahili, the diagram of crisis. Wien : AFRO-PUB, 1982. (175 p.)
Philipo, Zabroni T. na Frederick E. Kunyenga. Sintaksia ya Kiswahili : nadharia za kisintaksia na uchanganuzi wa Kiswahili. Toleo la pili. Dar es Salaam : Karljamer Publishers Limited, 2018. (205 p.) [On the syntax of the Swahili language.]
Philipo, Zabroni T. Utangulizi wa lugha na isimu. Dar es Salaam : Karljamer Publishers Limited, Oktoba 2018. (209 p.) [An introduction to the language and its linguistic structure.]
Resani, Mnata. Semantiki na pragmatiki ya Kiswahili. Dar es Salaam, Tanzania : Karljamer Publishers Limited, [2017]. (198 p.) [On the semantics and pragmatics of the Swahili language.]
Sanga, Aginiwe Nelson na Zabroni T. Philipo. Fonolojia ya Kiswahili. Toleo la pili. Dar es Salaam, Tanzania : Karljamer Publishers Limited, 2017. (218 p.) [On the phonology of the Swahili language.]
Sewangi, S. S. The syntax of empty category in Kiswahili simple sentences : the government binding approach. M.A. thesis--University of Nairobi, Kenya, 1993. (131 leaves)
Schicho, Walter. Kiswahili von Lubumbashi : Sprachverwendung und Sprachwertung am Beispiel einer afrikanischen Grosstadt. [mit Texten von Mbayabo Ndala.] Wien : Afro-Pub, 1980. (73 p.) [In German, on the Swahili dialect of eastern Congo.]
Tuntufye, N. D. Baada ya elimu ya msingi. Dar es Salaam, Tanzania : Mwangaza Publishers, 1981.
(93 p.)
Ukuzaji wa istilahi za kiswahili. Wahiriri, John G. Kiango. Dar es Salaam : Taasisi ya Uchunguzi wa Kiswahili, Chuo Kikuu cha Dar es Salaam, c2008. (181 p.)
Ukuzaji wa Kiswahili : dhima na majukumu ya asasi mbalimbali. Wahiriri, Nyachae Michira, P.I. Iribemwangi, Mwenda Mbatiah. Nairobi, Kenya : Focus Publishers Ltd., 2014. (254 p.)
Utafiti na utungaji wa kamusi. Wahiriri, J.G. Kiango na J.S. Mdee. Dar es Salaam : Taasisi ya Uchunguzi wa Kiswahili, Chuo Kikuu cha Dar es Salaam, c1995. (118 p.)
Vitale, Anthony J. Swahili syntax. Dordrecht, Holland ; Cinnaminson, N.J. : Foris Publications, 1981.
Westley, David. A bibliography of Swahili language and linguistics. Madison: African Studies Program, University of Wisconsin-Madison, c2001. (62 p).
Zawawi, Sharifa M. Loan words and their effect on the classification of Swahili nominals. Leiden : Brill, 1979. (153 p.)
--See also: Ph.D thesis--Columbia University, 1974
Ziddy, Issa H. Lugha ya kiarabu Zanzibar : historia na mbinu za usomeshaji. Zanzibar : Ziddy I.H., 2011. (212 p.) [In Swahili, with some Arabic, the history of the teaching of Arabic in Zanzibar.]