Kamil Deen
List of John Benjamins publications in which Kamil Deen is involved.
Book series
ISSN 0925-0123
Title
The Acquisition of Swahili
Kamil Deen
This monograph is the first study of the acquisition of Swahili as a first language. It focuses on the acquisition of inflectional affixes, with a particular emphasis on subject agreement and tense. Other inflectional affixes are also investigated, including object agreement and mood. The study… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 40] 2005. xiv, 241 pp.
Articles
2014 The extrinsic plural marker in Korean: Five studies Korean Linguistics 16:1, pp. 1–17 | Article
This paper presents a series of experiments designed to shed light on some aspects of the use and interpretation of so-called ‘extrinsic -tul’ by child and adult native speakers of Korean. Our findings indicate that this morpheme occurs far less frequently than the intrinsic plural marker in both… read more
2003 The acquisition of inflectional prefixes in Nairobi Swahili Annual Review of Language Acquisition: Volume 3 (2003), Santelmann, Lynn, Maaike Verrips, Frank Wijnen and Clara Levelt (eds.), pp. 139–179 | Article
This study investigates the acquisition of inflectional prefixes in Swahili, an eastern Bantu language. The order of morphemes in adult Swahili is: Subject Agreement – Tense – (Object Agreement) –Verb Root – (derivational suffixes) –Mood Vowel. I present data from an original corpus of 4… read more