Noun Class Agreement in Niger‐Congo Languages

Abstract Building on a revision of the conceptual and terminological framework commonly used in the description of the Niger‐Congo systems of noun inflection and gender commonly analysed in terms of ‘noun classes’, this entry surveys the characteristic features of the Niger‐Congo systems of gender‐number agreement, with a particular attention to phenomena that are problematic for the traditional approach conflating the number markers of nouns and the gender‐number agreement markers into a single category of ‘class markers’.