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Numeral adjectives in Sereer function syntactically like all other adjectives, but exhibit irregular inflection patterns. In addition to initial consonant alternations, numerals exhibit vowel alternations in different noun classes. Numerals take regular NC prefixes and initial consonant mutations, but show at most three different vowel configurations; one when used in isolation as a counting word, one when used with the person NC, and one for all (?) other NCs. |
Numeral adjectives in Sereer function syntactically like all other adjectives, but exhibit irregular inflection patterns. In addition to initial consonant alternations, numerals exhibit vowel alternations in different noun classes. Numerals take regular NC prefixes and initial consonant mutations, but show at most three different vowel configurations; one when used in isolation as a counting word, one when used with the person NC, and one for all (?) other NCs. |
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Revision as of 06:20, 14 December 2012
Numeral adjectives in Sereer function syntactically like all other adjectives, but exhibit irregular inflection patterns. In addition to initial consonant alternations, numerals exhibit vowel alternations in different noun classes. Numerals take regular NC prefixes and initial consonant mutations, but show at most three different vowel configurations; one when used in isolation as a counting word, one when used with the person NC, and one for all (?) other NCs.
Isolation w/ person NC w/ other NCs 1 leng leng -leng 2 ƭik ɗik -ƭak 3 tadik daduk -tadak 4 naxiq naxuq -naxaq / -naaq 5 ƥetik ɓetuk -ƥetak
