LISTS OF TABLES, FIGURES, SYMBOLS AND ABBREVIATIONS

Symbols

              conceptual inclusion
              conceptual equivalence
               alternant variant
               negative e.g., .
  /             correlative nominal classes
        transforms into, becomes
  + , .        concatenation
  _            truncation
  o            noun without initial vowel (i.e. preprefix)

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Languages

E.                English
F.                French
Ger.            German
Lgd.            Luganda
Gk.              Greek
Ind.              Indonesian
Lat.             Latin
Ksw.           Kiswahili

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Morphological Abbreviations

A              adjective

N              (1)   noun
                 (2)   nasal consonant

Prn             pronoun

C              (1)   verb
                 (2)   vowel

S               stem e.g.   SV verbal stem
                                     SN nominal stem

D               suffix

P                prefix e.g. PN nominal prefix

D'              suffix involving sound change

U               archiphoneme for o and u

I                 archiphoneme for e and i

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