From preposition to plural marker and more grammaticalization of Kuche bānà

From preposition to plural marker and more grammaticalization of Kuche bānà

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While most Benue-Congo languages of West Africa retain only vestiges of a noun class system, Kuche, a language of Central Nigeria, has an extensive system similar in many ways to Bantu systems. One unusual feature of the system is the form ban( a), used to pluralize, for example, kin terms such as &...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Janet Wilson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: LibraryPress@UF 2002-06-01
Series:Studies in African Linguistics
Subjects:
Kuche
noun class
pluralizer
associative
topic
focus
Online Access:https://ojs.test.flvc.org/sal/article/view/107355

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https://ojs.test.flvc.org/sal/article/view/107355

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