Humans categorize the experience they encounter in various ways, which is mirrored, for
instance, in grammatical gender systems of languages. In such systems, nouns are grouped …

This monograph proposes a reconstruction of the lexicon, the morphophonology and the
noun class system of Proto-Fula–Sereer (~ 3500 BP). Fula–Sereer represents one of the six …

The traditional approach to Niger-Congo gender systems conflates the number markers of
nouns and the gender-number markers of adnominals and pronouns into a single category …

Le principal objectif de cette étude est de situer les constructions verbales du wolof dans
une perspective typologique. Il s' agit tout d'abord de proposer une description synthétique …

One of the distinctive features of the Niger-Congo family of languages of Sub-Saharan Africa
is the existence of large noun class systems. These noun class systems are probably best …

This chapter aims at giving a typological overview of noun class systems in the two groups of
languages that constitute the Atlantic family as tentatively delimited by Pozdniakov and …

The paper focuses on minor noun classes and minor genders in Niger-Congo languages,
which are usually regarded as anomalies in class systems. It takes into consideration data …

Le minyanka est une langue sénoufo qui a plusieurs dialectes. Cette thèse est un essai de
description de la variété du minyanka parlée à Pénesso, dans le cercle de Bla (sud-est du …

Chapter 1 (“Overt verb classification in spoken language: an introduction and a typology”)
provides a critical review of verb classification systems, summarised in Table 1 on p. 24. To …

Cette présente étude porte sur la description générale et l'étude socio-culturelle de la
possession en oniyan. Plus connue sous l'appellation Bassari, cette langue appartient au …