Materials
presented here
The materials presented here are extracted
from a series of datasets
of varying completeness on languages of Central Nigeria all of which are available for
download from my website
They present data samples from a range of languages, focusing of particular aspects
of morphology
A failure to realise the significance of
plural verbs often means
that verbal plurality is not recognised in grammatical descriptions and not clearly listed in
dictionary-type materials
Unlike nouns, verb pairings (or more) are
not quickly available
to informants. Therefore we cannot be sure that we have complete lists for any given
language
Suppletion is fairly common, and therefore
whether a quite different
root is the ‘plural’ of a singular can be disputed. This probably relates to semantic
ramification common with some types of verbs such as ‘cut’ or
‘pour’.