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The role of the Babanki noun phrase-final enclitic class marker
Linguistique et Langues Africaines, 2022 Babanki, a Grassfields Bantu language of the North-West Region of Cameroon exhibits a noun phrase (NP) level enclitic class marker related to that found in other Ring languages such as Aghem and Lamnso’. As is common in Ring noun class systems generally,
Pius W. Akumbu, Roland Kießling
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Noun Classes and Agreement in Lutsotso
Journal of Linguistics, Literary and Communication Studies, 2023 One of the most noticeable grammatical features of Bantu languages, is the presence of noun classes. Although each noun (or noun stem) in the majority of Bantu languages is classified into one of 15–18 noun classes, Lutsotso language captures 21 classes.
Hellen Odera, Evaline Osore
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The Preconceptual Basis of Noun Class (Gender)
Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics, 2022 Noun class is widely seen as “standing out” from other morphosyntactic categories in having a basis in ontological beliefs, or a ‘semantic core’.
Patrik Bye
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Studies in African Linguistics, 2021 It is common knowledge that noun classes in Mabia (Gur) languages are primarily characterized by stems and affixes. Common to all studies on nominal classification in Kusaal is the observation that nouns that exhibit common morphological properties also
Hasiyatu Abubakari
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Studies in African Linguistics, 1997 Studies of Ciyao, a Bantu language classified as P.21 by Guthrie [1967-71], agree that there are 18 noun classes, each of which determines a primary prefix on the noun, and concord prefixes on elements that agree with head nouns.
Annindo S. Ngunga
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WordNet Nouns: Classes and Instances [PDF]
Computational Linguistics, 2006 WordNet, a lexical database for English that is extensively used by computational linguists, has not previously distinguished hyponyms that are classes from hyponyms that are instances. This note describes an attempt to draw that distinction and proposes a simple way to incorporate the results into future versions of WordNet.
George A. Miller, Florentina Hristea
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Maasai gender in typological perspective
Studies in African Linguistics, 1998 Maasai nouns (or determined NPs) occur in one of three genders: masculine/ augmentative, feminine/diminutive, or place (the last is extremely limited). The Maasai gender system is semantic rather than formal (i.e., based on phonological or morphological ...
Doris Payne
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Phonological processes in the noun class system of lama.
Studies in African Linguistics, 1989 The purpose of this paper is to account for the phonological processes taking place within noun classes and across noun classes in Lama, particularly when some class suffixes are attached to noun stems.
Meterwa A. Ourso
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Noun classification in Wolof when affixes are not renewed
Studies in African Linguistics, 1997 The Wolof noun class system exhibits a variety of class assignment strategies based on the intersection of semantic, morphological, phonological and sociolinguistic criteria.
Fiona McLaughlin
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Studies in African Linguistics, 2010 In his book on gender Corbett observes that establishing the number of genders or noun classes in a given language ‘can be the subject of interminable dispute’ (1991: 145). Jóola like Gújjolaay Eegimaa (bqj, Atlantic, Niger-Congo) have noun class systems
Serge Sagna
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