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Floating tone noun class prefixes in Mada (Nigeria)
Linguistique et Langues Africaines, 2021 Mada [mda], a Plateau language spoken in central Nigeria, has many seemingly inexplicable tone alternations that occur between the singular and plural forms of nouns.
Keith L. Snider
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Relic noun-class structure in Leggbo
Studies in African Linguistics, 2006 No abstract is available for SAL supplements.
Larry M. Hyman, Imelda Udoh
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Morphological alternation and event delimitation in Eegimaa [PDF]
Italian Journal of Linguistics, 2017 It is rare for a language to be able to use noun class markers in the nominal domain to categorise entities, and at the same time, use these same linguistic markers to categorise events from the verbal domain.
Sagna Serge
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, 2022 Supplementary materials for the chapter 'Noun class' in The Oxford Guide to Australian Languages. Content and scope of the materials are discussed in the chapter.
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Open Linguistics, 2020 This article presents an overview of the numeral system in Akebu, a Kwa language of Togo. The Akebu numeral system is a decimal one and contains simple numerals from ‘1’ to ‘9’ and decimal bases for ‘10’, ‘100’, and ‘1,000’.
Makeeva Nadezhda, Shluinsky Andrey
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Mass Nouns in a Logic of Classes as Many [PDF]
Journal of Philosophical Logic, 2008 zbMATH Open Web Interface contents unavailable due to conflicting licenses.
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A tentative description of Ginyanga noun class system and noun class agreement
Acta Linguistica Petropolitana, 2021 This paper features a preliminary overview of Ginyanga (Kwa, North Guang) noun class system and agreement. This is the first study that addresses Ginyanga morphology in detail and puts it into typological perspective. Although Kwa languages are generally known for their reduced morphology, the North Guang branch is distinguished by its rich noun class ...
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Avatime noun classes and concord
Studies in African Linguistics, 1995 Avatime is one of 14 "Central-Togo" (or "Togo Remnant") languages, spoken in Ghana, Togo, and Benin. These languages differ from their nearest Kwa group relatives in that they have active systems of noun classes and concord.
Russell G. Schuh
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Morphologically based agreement in Swahili
Studies in African Linguistics, 1989 In this paper we argue that to a great extent noun class agreement in Swahili is based on inflectional features. Yet where inflectional features are not present, a derivational feature of inherent noun class controls agreement.
Karl H. Reynolds, Carol M. Eastman
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The Enclitic in Tiv Associative Constructions and Prepositional Phrases
Nordic Journal of African Studies, 2023 Tiv associative constructions and prepositional phrases are characterized by what was originally a noun class agreement enclitic that has degenerated in some morphosyntactic contexts to a grammatical tone that remains invariant in noun class agreement ...
Michael Angitso
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