Les adjectifs dans la syntaxe du baatɔnum

Abstract

Adjectives, on the linguistic light of some western languages studied, are a class of word that joins the noun phrase to express quality, relation or simply to help to recall the noun as previously evoked in the sentence. They behave differently from a language to another. The present paper identifies adjectives and their variation in the baatᴐnu sentence. It presents the typology of adjectives in Baatᴐnum from a corpus of 100 morphemes considered as such and examines the variation following practical use of them. According to the theory by Chomsky as revisited by Lyons (1970), adjectives are found in noun phrases (NP). The methodology used in the study is description. The results show the existence of qualitative and non-qualitative adjectives. The non-qualitative adjectives are of seven types. The nominal class of the word influences the variation of the adjective. The variation can be morphological or phonological.