ABSTRACT
This chapter explains the case for descriptive and quantitative adjectives, as well as for various pronouns, such as the possessive, the demonstrative, and the interrogative. Adjectives use the same type of prefixes as nouns, that is, "nominal prefixes". Conversely, pronouns use an agreement prefix that may be different from noun prefixes, that is, "pronominal prefixes". The chapter presents the nominal prefixes used for nouns and adjectives, contrastively with pronominal prefixes used for the pronouns. It classifies different noun determiners according to the type of agreement prefixes they use that is, nominal vs. pronominal prefixes. In addition to the interrogative pronouns seen in the previous section, one observes that Swahili does not use the so-called "interrogative inversion", which typically places the object of the verb in clause-initial position, nor uses "interrogative auxiliaries". In other words, interrogative clauses in Swahili are similar to their "statement" counterparts, except for the intonation.
