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Nouns

Index of SIL publications on Nouns listed by country.

See only SIL publications on Nouns available online or for purchase from SIL International Publications.

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General works

• LONGACRE, Robert E., author. 1992. "The analysis of preverbal nouns in biblical Hebrew narrative: some overriding concerns."

Works specific to particular countries

Africa

Burkina Faso

• KURRLE, Gertrud, author. 1988. "Some word tone patterns in Nuni."

Cameroon

• PARKER, Elizabeth, author. 1989. "Le nom et le syntagme nominal en mundani."
• THWING, Rhonda Ann, author. 1987. The Vute noun phrase and the relationship between Vute and Bantu.  
• WATTERS, John R., author. 2000. "Tone in Western Ejagham (Etung): the case of lexical and postlexical tone on nouns."

Côte d’Ivoire

• BURMEISTER, Jonathan L., author. 1976. "A comparison of variable nouns in Anyi-Sanvi and Nzema."

Ethiopia

• UNSETH, Peter, author. 1988. "Majang nominal plurals, with comparative notes."

Ghana

• BENDOR-SAMUEL, John T.; WILSON, W. A. A., authors. 1969. "The phonology of the nominal in Dagbani."
• CAHILL, Michael, author. 1998. Tonal polarity in Kɔnni nouns: an optimal theoretical account.
• CAHILL, Michael, author. 2004. "Tone polarity in Kɔnni nouns."
• CALLOW, John C., author. 1965. "Kasem nominals—a study in analyses."
• CASALI, Roderic F., author. 1994. "Nominal tone in Nawuri."

Kenya

• PILLINGER, Stephen, author. 1989. Accent, tone and prosodic structure in Rendille, with particular reference to the nominal system.

Nigeria

• WATTERS, John R., author. 2000. "Tone in Western Ejagham (Etung): the case of lexical and postlexical tone on nouns."

Sudan

• STIRTZ, Timothy M., author. 2006. "Possession of alienable and inalienable nouns in Gaahmg."

Togo

• POIDI, Honorine, author. 1989. Le système nominal de l’igo-ahlɔ (étude preliminaire).

Americas

Brazil

• DOBSON, Rose M., author. 1973. "Notas sobre substantivos do kayabí."  
• GRAHAM, Albert; GRAHAM, Sue; HARRISON, Carl H., authors. 1984. "Prefixos pessoais e numerais da língua sateré-mawé."  
• KINGSTON, Peter K. E., author. 1976. "Sufixos referenciais e o elemento nominal na língua mamaindé."  
• WEIR, E. M. Helen, author. 1990. "Incorporation in Nadëb."

Canada

• JANCEWICZ, Bill, author. 1998. "Nominalizations in Naskapi: production and inflection."

Chile

• HARMELINK, Bryan L., author. 1992. "La incorporación nominal en el mapudungun."

Colombia

• WHEELER, Margaret A., author. 1992. "Sufijos nominales en el Proto Tucano Occidental."  

Honduras

• DENNIS, Ronald K.; FLEMING, Ilah, authors. 1975. "Tol (jicaque): Los sustantivos."

Mexico

• BARTHOLOMEW, Doris A.; GIBSON, Lorna F., authors. 1979. "Pame noun inflection."
• BLACK, Cheryl A., author. 2005. "An autosegmental analysis of Meˀphaa (Tlapanec) noun inflection."
• DAVIS, Marjorie, author. 1952. "Translating nouns into the Cuicateco language."
• DELGATY, Alfa, author. 1961. "Notes on dependent versus independent nouns in Tsotsil."
• HOLLENBACH, Barbara E., author. 1990. "Semantic and syntactic extensions of Copala Trique body-part nouns."
• MARLETT, Stephen A., author. 1993. Goals and indirect objects in Seri.
• RUPP, James E., author. 2009. Animacy in two Chinantec variants.  
• TUGGY, David H., author. 1987. La incorporación de sustantivos en el Náhuatl.  
• TUGGY, David H., author. 1996. "Dative-like constructions in Orizaba Nahuatl."
• WATTERS, James K., author. 1996. "The interpretation of deverbal nouns in Tepehua."
• WONDERLY, William L., author. 1951. "Zoque IV: Auxiliaries and nouns."

Peru

• ADAMS, Patsy; MARLETT, Stephen A., authors. 1990. "Madija noun morphology."
• COOMBS, David M., author. 1976. Sufijos nominales relacionales en el quechua Ayacucho.  
• LOOS, Eugene E., author. 1973. "La señal de transitividad del sustantivo en los idiomas panos."  

Asia

Indonesia

• FIELDS, Philip, author. 1996. "Pivot and nominalisation in Orya."

Laos

• MOREV, Lev N., author. 2006. "Cognitive and structural aspects of abstract nominalization in Tai and some other isolating languages of Southeast Asia."  

Myanmar

• HOPPLE, Paulette, author. 2003. The structure of nominalization in Burmese.  

Nepal

• WATTERS, David E., author. 2008. "Nominalization in the Kiranti and Central Himalayish languages of Nepal."

Philippines

• HOLTON, Gary, author. 2006. "The relational noun marker in Tobelo (Northeast Halmaheran)."  
• NEWELL, Leonard E., author. 2008. Role relationships and lexical descriptions applied to Batad Ifugao.

Taiwan

• CHEN, Chihsin; HSIEH, Fuhui, authors. 2006. "Nominalization and relativization constructions in Kavalan revisited."  

Thailand

• MOREV, Lev N., author. 2006. "Cognitive and structural aspects of abstract nominalization in Tai and some other isolating languages of Southeast Asia."  

Viet Nam

• HOÀNG Văn Hành, author. 1992. "The mechanism for forming nominating units in isolating languages."  
• KOHNERT, Kathryn; PHAM Giang, authors. 2009. "A corpus-based analysis of Vietnamese 'classifiers' "con" and "cái"."  

Pacific

Australia

• HERSHBERGER, Henry D., author. 1964. "A tentative description of the noun morphology of Gugu-Yalanji."
• KIRTON, Jean F., author. 1971. "Yanyula noun modifiers."

Papua New Guinea

• BJORKMAN, Doris; GEARY, Elaine; PENCE, Alan R., authors. 1970. "Kunimaipa nominals."
• DAVIS, Donald R., author. 1972. "Axis-relator phrases in Wantoat."
• FIRCHOW, Irwin B., author. 1971. "Rotokas referentials."  
• FIRCHOW, Irwin B., author. 1977. Some functions of Rotokas referentials.  
• HEALEY, Alan; OATRIDGE, Desmond; OATRIDGE, Jennifer, authors. 1973. "Binumarien noun affixes."
• HOTZ, Joyce M.; STRINGER, Mary D., authors. 1971. "The occurrence and co-occurrence of Waffa noun suffixes."
• HUISMAN, Ronald D., author. Available: 2009; Created: 1981-03. Angaataha nouns.  
• LOVING, Aretta; LOVING, Richard, authors. 1962. "A preliminary survey of Awa noun suffixes."
• STRANGE, David, author. Available: 2009; Created: 1972. Dano noun inflection.  
• STRANGE, Gladys N., author. 1965. "Nominal elements in Upper Asaro."
• VINCENT, Alexander, author. 1973. "Notes on Tairora noun morphology."