Nuer noun morphology

Publisher: University of New York
Publication date: 1999
Number of pages: 149Nuer is a language spoken in southern Sudan. It is, along with Dinka, its closest relative, a member of the Western Nilotic branch of Nilo-Saharan languages. The dialect of Nuer that will be investigated in this paper is Eastern Nuer1, specifically such as is spoken in Nasir, Sudan, near
the Ethiopian border. The purpose of this thesis is twofold: first, to address the paucity mentioned in the quote above by descriptively investigating the morphology of the Nuer noun with regards to case (nominative, genitive and locative) and number (singular and plural), and second, to point out the importance of these data for morphological theory and to point out avenues for future research.