oai:hughandbecky.us:0033
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OLAC Record oai:hughandbecky.us:0033 |
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| Title: | The noun class system of u̱t‑Maꞌin, a West Kainji language of Northwestern Nigeria | |
| Abstract: | A comprehensive overview of the noun class system of u̱t‑Maꞌin including the morphosyntax of the noun phrase and the use of both prefixes and suffixes on nouns and agreement targets. Targets include noun phrase modifiers, but not verbal indexation. | |
| Bibliographic Citation: | Smith, Rebecca Dow. 2007. _The noun class system of u̱t‑Maꞌin, a West Kainji language of Northwestern Nigeria_. M. A. Thesis, University of North Dakota. Grand Forks, North Dakota. https://arts-sciences.und.edu/academics/summer-institute-of-linguistics/theses/2007-smith-rebecca-d.html | |
| Contributor (author): | Rebecca Dow Smith Paterson | |
| Description: | This present work provides a comprehensive overview of the noun class system of u̱t‑Maꞌin, a Benue‑Congo (West Kainji) language of Northwestern Nigeria. The u̱t‑Maꞌin language is characterized by a complex noun classification system and a robust agreement system that permeates the language. While an understanding of the noun classes is essential to an understanding of the language as a whole, discussion includes the division of nouns into thirteen distinct classes, marked by prefixes on the nouns themselves and by agreement elements on other clause constituents. The relationship of the noun classes of u̱t‑Maꞌin to historical reconstruction work available for the noun class systems of both Proto‑Benue‑Congo and Proto‑Kainji is explored, and the robust noun class agreement system that affects numerals, quantifiers, the associative construction, the pronoun system, the indefinite and definite articles, adjectives, and the interrogatives “which?” and “what?” is described. Of particular interest to the reader are the semantic properties that characterize the noun classes and the noun class pairings; these semantic characteristics also serve as the primary criteria for the assignment of a noun to a particular class or class pairing. Also of interest are the varied forms of the associative markers and the use of both prefixes and suffixes to mark agreement on clause constituents. | |
| Identifier: | https://arts-sciences.und.edu/academics/summer-institute-of-linguistics/theses/2007-smith-rebecca-d.html | |
| Identifier (URI): | https://hughandbecky.us/Becky-CV/publication/2007-thesis/ | |
| Language: | English | |
| ut-Ma'in | ||
| Language (ISO639): | eng | |
| gel | ||
| Publisher: | University of North Dakota | |
| Subject: | morphology | |
| syntax | ||
| Thesis | ||
| u̱t‑Maꞌin | ||
| Kainji | ||
| u̱t-Maꞌin noun research | ||
| Grammar | ||
| Noun Classes | ||
| u̱t‑MaꞌRor | ||
| ut-Ma'in language | ||
| Subject (ISO639): | gel | |
| Subject (OLAC): | morphology | |
| syntax | ||
| Type (OLAC): | language_description | |
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| Archive: | Rebecca Paterson's Interactive Research Portfolio | |
| Description: | http://www.language-archives.org/archive/hughandbecky.us | |
| GetRecord: | OAI-PMH request for OLAC format | |
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| OaiIdentifier: | oai:hughandbecky.us:0033 | |
| DateStamp: | 2021-02-22 | |
| GetRecord: | OAI-PMH request for simple DC format | |
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| Citation: | Rebecca Dow Smith Paterson. n.d. University of North Dakota. | |
| Terms: | area_Africa area_Europe country_GB country_NG iso639_eng iso639_gel olac_language_description olac_morphology olac_syntax | |
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| Country: | Nigeria | |
| Area: | Africa | |