TY - BOOK AU - Lukusa, Stephen T. M. AU - Monaka, Kemmonye C TI - Shekgalagari grammar: a descriptive analysis of the language and its vocabulary T2 - CASAS Book Series SN - 9781920294434 PY - 2008/// CY - Cape Town PB - The Centre for Advanced Studies of African Society (CASAS) KW - Kgalagadi language KW - Grammar N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; 1 - Introduction, 2 - The noun class system, 3 - Pronouns, 4 - Adjectives, 5 - The verb: root and systems, 6 - Adverbs, ideophones and interjections, 7 - Prepositions and conjuctions, 8 - The sentence structure N2 - Shekgalagari Grammar is the first book of its kind on the language. It is an important book on Botswana minority languages authored by two well known linguists from the University of Botswana including an experienced Bantuist and a native speaker of the language. The data on which the examples are based is reliable and has been well researched into, taking account of Shengologa as the central dialect informally representing the other varieties of the language, without totally ignoring the latter dialects. ER -