ABSTRACT

This book presents a description of the phonology and morphology of the nominal class system in Fula, a dialect which displays 21 nominal classes. These are identified by suffixes, which can attach to nominal, verbal and adjectival stems. The main objective of this work is to show, through a lexical analysis, that there are only two monomorphemic marker variants, and that the distribution of these variants is predictable.

chapter |24 pages

Introduction

chapter 1|57 pages

Class Markers in Pulaar

chapter 2|20 pages

The Vowel System

chapter 3|22 pages

Consonants and their Status

chapter 5|45 pages

Syllables, Skeleton, and W and Y Variants

chapter |3 pages

Conclusion