J. E. Wilson

Though clauses of Kuche can be grammatically marked—usually by verb prefixes or auxiliary verbs—for tense and/or aspect and/or mood (TAM), in discourse, very few clauses are actually marked for these categories. Instead, TAM is often marked only once in a stretch of text and is …

The phonology of Kuche, a minority language of Northern Nigeria, is described, with a view to proposing a practical orthography. A sketch of the morphology and syntax is presented; the noun class system is similar to the systems found in Bantu languages of Eastern Africa. Syllab…