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| − | |** {{morphTest|nit i{{tag|n}}{{tag|sg det}}|nit ki}} || The person | + | |**{{morphTest|nit i{{tag|n}}{{tag|sg det}}|nit ki}} || The person |
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| ** {{morphTest|tëgg i{{tag|n}}{{tag|sg det}}|tëgg bi}} || The blacksmith | | ** {{morphTest|tëgg i{{tag|n}}{{tag|sg det}}|tëgg bi}} || The blacksmith | ||
Revision as of 15:05, 16 February 2023
Contents
Grammar documentation - Wolof
- General overview of Wolof grammar[1]
- Long academic grammatical description[2]
- Noun classification resource[3]
- Notable characteristics of Wolof Grammar[4]
Parts of Speech
Wolof is an SVO language
- Verbs are static and do not change for tense, aspect, or mood
- Nouns have 10 classes, 8 of which are singular classes and are marked by specific prefixes, and 2 are plural classes also marked by prefixes
- However, these prefixes are not morphologically marked on the noun itself, but on the dependent that agrees with the noun
- Therefore, plural and singular nouns cannot be distinguished unless they occur in a noun phrase
- However, these prefixes are not morphologically marked on the noun itself, but on the dependent that agrees with the noun
- Pronouns in Wolof are the most morphologically complex
- separated into five categories: personal, possessive, demonstrative, interrogative, relative, indefinite[5]
Noun classes
| Singular Classes | Plural Classes |
| k- | ñ- |
| b- | y- |
| g- | |
| j- | |
| l- | |
| m- | |
| s- | |
| w- |
The k- class and it's plural the ñ- class have rigid and exclusive membership. Nouns in this class are:
- k- class includes nit "person", and kef "thing"
- ñ- class includes nit "person", and (speaker dependent) jigeén "women", góor "men", gaa "people"
- other than these nouns, plural nouns are always in the y- class
examples
- noun class examples with determiners
- determiners will always have a prefix based on noun class and cannot exist without a class morpheme (ask about putting eng glossing after the arrows instead since the lemma cannot exist independently)
- singular determiners
- nit i<n><sg det> ↔ nit ki The person
- tëgg i<n><sg det> ↔ tëgg bi The blacksmith
- kër i<n><sg det> ↔ kër gi The house
- jigéen i<n><sg det> ↔ jigéen ji The woman
- ngunu i<n><sg det> ↔ ngunu li The chicken coop
- picc i<n><sg det> ↔ picc mi The bird
- ndaw i<n><sg det> ↔ ndaw si The young woman
- waasintoor i<n><sg det> ↔ waasintoor wi The fish scale
- plural determiners
- nit i<n><pl det> ↔ nit ñi The people
- kër i<n><pl det> ↔ kër yi The houses
| **nit i<n><sg det> ↔ nit ki | The person |
| ** tëgg i<n><sg det> ↔ tëgg bi | The blacksmith |
| ** kër i<n><sg det> ↔ kër gi | The house |
| ** jigéen i<n><sg det> ↔ jigéen ji | The woman |
| ** ngunu i<n><sg det> ↔ ngunu li | The chicken coop |
| ** picc i<n><sg det> ↔ picc mi | The bird |
| ** ndaw i<n><sg det> ↔ ndaw si | The young woman |
| ** waasintoor i<n><sg det> ↔ waasintoor wi | The fish scale |
Pronominal morphemes
Posessives
- samay yax ak sama suux (wol_output.txt line 73) - samay = my (pl) ; sama = my (sing),
glosses
xeet-am, muy-toj sa-bopp
son.3pPOSS F.crush 2pPOSS.head
Her son will crush your head