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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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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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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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Competition between phonological and semantic cues in noun class learning
Journal of Memory and Language, 2017 Jennifer Culbertson, Kenny Smith
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Cognition, 2022 In sentence comprehension, the parser in many languages has the option to use both the morphological form of a noun and its lexical representation when evaluating agreement.
Jochen Zeller, Emanuel Bylund, A. Lewis
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The evolution of the noun class system of Ngwi (West-Coastal Bantu, B861, DRC)
Language in Africa, 2021 In this paper we offer a first systematic account of the noun class system of Ngwi, a West-Coastal Bantu language spoken in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Sara Pacchiarotti, K. Bostoen
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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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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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