ABSTRACT

Pagibete, a North-Western Bantu borderlands language, shares many characteristics of other Bantu languages, such as phonological attributes, the noun class system and use of agglutination. However, it differs significantly from other Bantu languages in its liberal use of suffixes, for nouns as well as verbs. Grammatical tone has a high functional load in its two-tone system. The verb is also distinctive in its lack of agreement with the class of the subject noun and in the ordering of its morphological constituents. However, two verbal particles do agree with the class of the subject.