Wikisida, AF1211 V23 Typologi och språkliga strukturer i afrikanska språk: Lesson 6 Number, gender & agreement

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2022-10-28T07:28:28+02:00

The inflection on the verb often needs to agree with its nominal arguments, in number, gender and animacy, for example. Some languages also have case marking on the noun. These are the topics of this lesson.

A. From our main textbook - Velupillai: An introduction to linguistic typology

Chapter 7: Nominal categories and syntax

Study questions for section 7.1, and for the section on NP syntax (7.2).

Linguistic question of this lesson.

B. Noun class systems are very common on the African continent. Read this overview:

Marten, Lutz. 2021. Noun Classes and Plurality in Bantu Languages. In Patricia Cabredo Hofherr and Jenny Doetjes (eds): The Oxford Handbook of Grammatical Number Oxford Handbooks Online.

C. We will also read on number in Cushitic languages, from the same handbook:

Mous, Maarten. 2021. Nominal number in Cushitic. In Patricia Cabredo Hofherr and Jenny Doetjes (eds): The Oxford handbook of grammatical number. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Consider the data with regards to animacy and discuss the exercise here.