Items for "Chadic languages"

Fieldwork among the Goemai in Nigeria: discovering the grammar of property expressions

This paper describes fieldwork experiences among the Goemai of Central Nigeria. It first introduces the fieldwork setting, and then focuses on one illustrative example: the investigation of property-denoting ('adjectival′) expressions...

Keywords: Chadic languages, Goemai, adjectival concepts, fieldwork methodology, semantic-based approach to fieldwork