Publication: Noun classes and grammatical gender in Wolof
Noun classes and grammatical gender in Wolof
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Babou, C. A., & Loporcaro, M. (2016). Noun classes and grammatical gender in Wolof. Journal of African Languages and Linguistics, 37(1), 1–57. https://doi.org/10.1515/jall-2016-0001
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In this paper, we propose a reassessment of Wolof noun morphology and morphosyntax. Wolof is usually said to possess a total of 10 noun classes (8 for the singular, 2 for the plural), marked today exclusively on agreement targets. We provide evidence that two more plural noun classes must be recognized, which have so far been misinterpreted as “collective” rather than plural: the evidence we provide is morphosyntactic (from verb agreement) as well as morphological (from class-related asymmetries in the paradigm of the indefinite artic
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- Babou, Cheikh Anta
- Loporcaro, Michele
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Babou, C. A., & Loporcaro, M. (2016). Noun classes and grammatical gender in Wolof. Journal of African Languages and Linguistics, 37(1), 1–57. https://doi.org/10.1515/jall-2016-0001
