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Van de Velde, Mark (2019). Nominal morphology and syntax. In: Van de Velde, Mark; Koen Bostoen, Derek Nurse & Gérard Philippson (eds). The Bantu Languages, 2nd edition, London and New York: Routledge. p 237-269.

Prefinal version One of the quintessential typological properties of the Bantu languages is their pervasive system of noun classes and noun class agreement. This is undoubtedly the aspect of their grammatical structure that is most discussed in the literature, if only...

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