Peer-reviewed Journal Articles

2023    Ayiega, Mofart Onyoni, & Mwita, Leonard Chacha. Kiswahili compound nouns: Reasons for violation and non-violation of the Bracket Erasure Rule. Journal of African Language and Culture Studies, 4(4), 58–83.

2022    Ayiega, Mofart Onyoni. Utata katika ufasiri wa maana za sitiari za Kiswahili. Jarida la Fahari ya Kiswahili, 1(1), 77–91.   https://rucu.ac.tz/JAFAKI.html

2021    Ayiega, Mofart Onyoni, & Mwita, Leonard Chacha. Nomino ambatani za Kiswahili zinazokiuka kanuni ya kufuta mabano. East African Journal of Swahili Studies, 4(1), 30–42.
DOI: 10.37284/eajss.4.1.452

Proceedings Papers

2026    Ayiega, Mofart Onyoni, & Wagner, Suzanne Evans. Morphological leveling of noun class agreement in urban Swahili. Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America.[forthcoming]

2025    Ayiega, Mofart Onyoni, Ke, Alan Hezao, & Ngonyani, Deo. Morphosemantics of NP-internal and sentence-level agreement in Swahili. Proceedings of the 56th Annual Conference on African Linguistics.[forthcoming]

Co-authored Books

2023    Mwongozo wa Mapambazuko ya Macheo na Hadithi Nyingine. Wasike, Kenna; Kikechi, Kombo; & Ayiega, Mofart Onyoni. Nairobi: Jesma Publishers & Educational Boosters Limited.

2023    Mwongozo wa Nguu za Jadi. Kikechi, Kombo & Ayiega, Mofart Onyoni. Nairobi: Jesma Publishers & Educational Boosters Limited.

Manuscripts

ms    Ayiega, Mofart Onyoni, & Ngonyani, Deo. A taxonomy of Swahili applicatives.

ms    Ayiega, Mofart Onyoni. /N/ preservation in prenasal stops and compensatory lengthening in Ekegusii: A Stratal OT account.

in preparation    Ayiega, Mofart Onyoni, & Wagner, Suzanne Evans. Morphological leveling and cues to animacy in Nairobi Swahili subject–verb agreement.

in preparation    Ayiega, Mofart Onyoni, Ke, Alan Hezao, & Ngonyani, Deo. Morphosyntax and semantics of NP-internal and clause-level agreement in Swahili.

in preparation    Ayiega, Mofart Onyoni, & Ngonyani, Deo. Suffix ordering in Ekegusii verbs.

Refereed Conference Presentations

2026   Ayiega, Mofart Onyoni, & Wagner, Suzanne Evans. Morphological leveling and cues to animacy in Nairobi Swahili subject–verb agreement. 11th International Conference on Bantu Languages (Bantu 11), University of Ghent, Belgium. (To be presented)

2026    Ayiega, Mofart Onyoni, & Ngonyani, Deo. Suffix ordering in Ekegusii verbs. 57th Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL 57), University at Buffalo, New York. Poster. (To be presented)

2026    Ayiega, Mofart Onyoni, & Wagner, Suzanne Evans. Morphological leveling of noun class agreement in urban Swahili. Linguistic Society of America (LSA) Annual Meeting, New Orleans Marriott, New Orleans, Louisiana.

2025    Ayiega, Mofart Onyoni. Morphological non-agreement on animate nouns in Swahili. New Ways of Analyzing Variation 53 (NWAV 53), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan. Poster.

2025    Ayiega, Mofart Onyoni, & Ngonyani, Deo. Tense marking and the order of suffix in Ekegusii verbs. 56th Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL 56), University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.

2025    Ayiega, Mofart Onyoni, Ke, Alan Hezao, & Ngonyani, Deo. Morphosemantics of NP-internal and sentence-level agreement in Swahili. 56th Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL 56), University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.

2024    Ayiega, Mofart Onyoni, & Ngonyani, Deo. A taxonomy of Swahili applicatives. 10th International Conference on Bantu Languages (Bantu 10), University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

2023    Ayiega, Mofart Onyoni. Upanuzi wa maana ya baadhi ya msamiati wa Kiswahili: Mtazamo wa ubadilikaji. CHAUKIDU International Conference, Arusha, Tanzania.

2022    Ayiega, Mofart Onyoni. Usawiri wa mabadiliko ya mwanamke Mswahili katika riwaya Nyuso za Mwanamke (2010): Mtazamo wa utamaduni mageuzi. International Conference on Culture and Languages (BAKIZA), Wete, Pemba.

2021    Ayiega, Mofart Onyoni, & Mwita, Leonard Chacha. Kiswahili compound nouns: Reasons for violation and non-violation of the Bracket Erasure Rule. International Conference on African Language & Culture Studies, Beijing, China.