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Mamman, Munir – 1994
The positional definition of Hausa noun and verb, which uses person and aspect markers "y, s, and t" as criteria, is criticized as an unreliable framework for identification of nouns and verbs. It is proposed that this is so for nouns because a word may appear as a noun without any of the three markers. Verbs are more central than the…
Descriptors: African Languages, Classification, Foreign Countries, Form Classes (Languages)
Alcock, K. J.; Ngorosho, D. – Language and Speech, 2004
Grammatical priming of picture naming was investigated in Kiswahili, which has a complex grammatical noun class system (a system like grammatical gender), with up to 15 noun classes that have obligatory agreements on adjectives, verbs, pronouns and other parts of speech. Participants heard a grammatically agreeing (concordant), nonagreeing…
Descriptors: African Languages, Semantics, Nouns, Grammar