Word structure in Kisa

This dissertation examines the structure of words in Kisa (a dialect of Luhya), a Bantu language spoken in Western Kenya, from a phonological and morphological point of view. It describes the interaction at the phonology-morphology interface of the principles governing wordhood in Kisa. It shows that Kisa has two types of words the affixal word and the clitic word. This is determined primarily by the phonological and morphological criteria for wordhood. The areas covered in the thesis are parts-of-speech, segmental inventory including the status of nasal consonant sequences, syllable structure, nominal morphology, verbal morphology, and vowel hiatus resolution.