John T.M. Merrill

List of John Benjamins publications in which John T.M. Merrill is involved.

Article

Merrill, John T.M. 2021 The evolution of consonant mutation and noun class marking in Wolof Diachronica 38:1, pp. 64–110 | Article

This paper analyzes the origins and evolution of the Wolof (Atlantic: Senegal) consonant mutation and noun class marking systems. I attribute Wolof mutation to the earlier presence of CV(C)- class prefixes on nouns, the (usually final) consonants of which fused with the following root-initial… read more