Semantic field analysis and the structure of culture: a comparative study of Sotho and Xhosa

• Main Author: Thipa, Henry Mothebesoane
• Format: Master Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Rhodes University 1980
• Subjects: Xhosa language > Semantics; Sotho language > Semantics; Xhosa language > Social aspects; Sotho language > Social aspects; Field theory (Linguistics); Componential analysis (Linguistics); Indian; Fuller; Conklin; eskimo*
• Online Access: http://vital.seals.ac.za:8080/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:3647; http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1015985

Analyses of Sotho and Xhosa seem to concentrate predominantly on morphological, tonological and phonological studies. Semantics seems to be a relatively neglected area in African Languages. It is the view of the writer that attention should now be turned increasingly to semantics. In fact, except pe...