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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...

Van de Velde, Mark (2006). Multifunctional agreement patterns in Bantu and the possibility of genderless nouns. Linguistic Typology 10 (2): 183-221.

It is generally assumed that all nouns belong to a gender in gender languages and that this constitutes a fundamental difference between gender systems and systems of noun classifiers. An analysis of gender and agreement in the Cameroonian Bantu language Eton...

Van de Velde, Mark (2006). The alleged class 2a prefix bɔ̀ in Eton, a plural word. in: Cover, Rebecca and Yuni Kim (eds.), Proceedings of the Berkeley Linguistics Society 31st annual meeting, 119-130.

Van de Velde, Mark (2003). Proper Names and the so-called class 1a in Eton. Leuvense Bijdragen. 92 (3-4): 43-59.

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adamawa agreement applicative suffix areal linguistics augment bantu bena-yungur canonical approach comparative Bantu comparative concepts dictionary external possession grammar sketch historical syntax methodology noun classes noun phrase parametric approach possession proper names prosody prototypicality reconstruction reductionist approaches relative clauses scenario-based approach syntax tone word order éton