5-4 Summary and Conclusions -------------- 309
5-4.1 Types of variation in the noun

SYSTEM ---- nn een en ee nr rr errr nn 309
5-4.2 Dialectal patterning ----------------- 311
VARIATION IN THE VERB SYSTEM ~---------------- 317
6-1 Introduction ------------------------- 317
6-2 Verbal Derivational Suffixes --------- 318
6-2.1 Class 1 suffixes --------------------- 321
6-2.2 Class 2 suffixes --------------------- 345
6-2.3 Class 3 suffixes --------------------- 374
6-3 Verbal Inflectional Suffixes --------- 384
6-3.1 Introduction ------------------------- 384
6-3.2 Verbal inflectional distinctive

features --------------- eee rn rrr 386
6-3.3 Tenses ------------ rrr errr rrnne 389
6-4 The Verb sa.fia 'to say' -------------- 445
6-4.1 sa.fia with Simple tense -------------- 447
6-4.2 sa.fia with Future tense -------------- 450
6-4.3 sa.fia with other tenses -------------- 453
6-4.4 Dialectal patterning -~---------------- 454
6-5 Summary and Conclusions -------------- 455
6-5.1 Types of variation in the verb

SYSt@M ------ non nnn ner er renner nnn 455
6-5.2 Dialectal patterning ----------------- 459
SYNTACTIC AND MORPHOSYNTACTIC VARIATION ----- 468
7-1 Introduction ------------------------- 468
7-2 Particles and Syntactic Suffixes ----- 469
7-2.1 Particles ----------------------- eee 469
7-2.2 Syntactic suffixes ------------------- 473
7-3 Basic Sentence Types ----------------- 508
7-4 Morphosyntactic Processes ------------ 509
7-4.1 Reduplication ---~--------------------- 509
7-4.2 Subordination ------------------------ 517
7-4.3 uka linker and summarizer ------------ 562
7-4.4 sa.fia embedding ---------------------- 564
7-4.5 Negation ----------------------------- 576
7-5 Conclusion --------------------------- 587