A quantitative analysis of the morphology, morphophonology and semantic import of the Lusoga noun

Africana Linguistica

Volumn 16, Issue , 2010, Pages 97-153

  De Schryver, Gilles Maurice ^a,b   Nabirye, Minah ^a,c  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WESTERN CAPE   (South Africa)

^c MAKERERE UNIVERSITY   (Uganda)

Author keywords

Bantu; Corpus linguistics; Lusoga; Noun class system; Semantics

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650873862     PISSN: 00654124     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3406/aflin.2010.989     Document Type: Review

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