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Bodomo, Adams; Marfo, Charles – 2002
Up to two-thirds of African languages have a system of noun classification of some sort. This paper proposes an alternative approach to the noun class system of the Dagaare and Akan languages based more on an interaction between morphology and phonology than on semantics. Dagaare and Akan are two West African languages that exhibit mainly suffixal…
Descriptors: Akan, Classification, Morphophonemics, Nouns
