User:Misah Natumanya

My name is Misah Natumanya. I am a Ugandan by nationality, a Munyankore by tribe which lives in South Western Uganda.I am a master's student at the Institute for Languages and Communication Studies at NTNU. Back home in Uganda,I am a teaching Assistant in the Institute of Languages, Makerere University. I teach Runyakitara and some linguistics courses at undergraduate level. I enjoy morpho-syntax, morpho-semantics, phonology, translation and lexicography.I have a rich experience in translation from English to Runyankore-Rukiga, and I am among the key editors of the first ever Runyankore-Rukiga monolingual dictionary locally known as "Kashoboorozi ya Runyankore-Rukiga". Am also an author of Runyankore-Rukiga primary school thematic curriculum books, with Macmillan Publishers. I like linguistics with all my heart and soul,and believe me,this natural language database,will further our linguistic analysis.

Currently, I am writing a thesis about Applicative Constructions in Runyankore-Rukiga, It is basically on Runyankore-Rukiga Applicative Morphology(different forms and allomorphs of the applicative affix in RR),Classification and Object relations in RR applicative constructions, and the possible co-occurrences of the applicative morpheme with other verb derivational morphemes. I also intend to establish and show how the applicative morpheme licences an additional argument to the verb, where I will use Lexical Functional Grammar(LFG).The thesis will be written using annotated data from The study will be both Descriptive( being the first of its kind to document applicative constructions in Runyankore-Rukiga), and Analytical.There is no doubt that Typecraft will make it and see me through with.