Niger-Congo noun class and agreement systems in language acquisition and historical change

Demuth, Katherine; Faraclas, Nicholas; Marchese, Lynell

doi:10.1075/tsl.7.27dem

In:Noun Classes and Categorization: Proceedings of a symposium on categorization and noun classification, Eugene, Oregon, October 1983
Edited by Colette G. Craig
[Typological Studies in Language 7] 1986
► pp. 453–472

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Niger-Congo noun class and agreement systems in language acquisition and historical change

Katherine Demuth

Nicholas Faraclas

Lynell Marchese

Published online: 1 January 1986

https://doi.org/10.1075/tsl.7.27dem

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