Wolof Noun Classification: The Social Setting of Divergent Change.

Irvine, Judith T.

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Wolof Noun Classification: The Social Setting of Divergent Change

Irvine, Judith T.

Language in Society, 7, 1, 37-64, Apr 78

Ongoing change in Wolof noun classification is traced by comparing nineteenth-century linguistic evidence with modern sociolinguistic data. Upwardly mobile middle-aged men of high caste tend to reduce the noun class system, whereas other speakers tend to elaborate it. (Author/RM)

Descriptors: African Languages, Language Classification, Language Variation, Nouns, Social Class, Social Influences, Sociolinguistics, Standard Spoken Usage, Syntax, Wolof

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Identifiers - Location: Senegal

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