The Bafanji Noun Phrase
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2013
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Ministry of Scientific Research and Innovation
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27 pages
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Bafanji is a Nun language within Eastern Grassfields (Mbam-Nkam). Its ISO 639-3
language code is bfj. The Ethnologue (Lewis et al., 2013) gives it as
Niger-Congo, Atlantic-Congo, Volta-Congo, Benue-Congo,
Bantoid, Southern, Wide Grassfields, Narrow Grassfields,
Mbam-Nkam, Nun.
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Published
Table of Contents:
1. INTRODUCTION -- 1.1 THE PEOPLE -- 1.2 THE LANGUAGE -- 2. THE NOUN CLASS SYSTEM -- 2.1 NOUN CLASSES -- 2.2 AGREEMENT -- 2.3 GENDER PAIRING -- 2.4 NUMERAL CLASSIFIERS -- 3. THE STRUCTURE OF THE NOUN PHRASE -- 4. NOUN MODIFIERS -- 4.1 DETERMINERS -- 4.2 QUANTIFIERS -- 4.3 ATTRIBUTES -- 4.4 POSSESSIVE ADJECTIVES -- 4.5 RELATIVISER -- 5. ASSOCIATIVE NOUN PHRASES -- 5.1 TONE COMBINING -- 5.2 TONE MERGING -- 5.3 TONE DELINKING WITH RESULTING DOWNSTEP -- 5.4 TONE DELETION -- 5.5 RELATIONSHIPS IN ASSOCIATIVE NOUN PHRASES -- 6. COMPOUND NOUNS -- REFERENCES
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Entry Number:
53982