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It is only used as the subjectival concord for 3rd. persons and noun classes in the "direct tense" of the copulative employing the verbs [bɑ]-ba, [lɪ]-le, and [sɪ]-se (including multi-verbal conjugations), when the copulative base is a noun or pronoun.
The strongest trend (which is basically a rule) is that all class 1 nouns are human, and non-human nouns that begin with the mo-prefix are therefore in class 3 (in fact, there are no human class 3 nouns in Sesotho). In many other languages, however, class 1 contains "animate" nouns, and may therefore also contain some non-human nouns.
The prefix ba-has two allomorphs: ba-and bar-. The form ba-is used with root words that begin with a consonant, while the form bar-is used with root words that begin with a vowel. The prefix ba-can be attached to verbs, nouns, adjectives, and numerals. [23] The prefix ba-conveys different meanings depending on the type of word it is attached to ...
In form, some parts of speech (adjectives, enumeratives, some relatives, some possessives, and all verbs) are radical stems which need affixes to form meaningful words; others (copulatives, most possessives, and some adverbs) are formed from full words by the employment of certain formatives; the rest (nouns, pronouns, some relatives, some ...
Proper nouns should follow these guidelines, however one long-sound or one short-sound letter may be added before or after the word. c, lr, and qw are not permitted to be noun-initial, and l and w are avoided at the end of nouns. Example nouns include babm (a universal language) and rboit [rabooːiːto] ("mother and father").
A common characteristic of Bantu languages is that they use words such as muntu or mutu for "human being" or in simplistic terms "person", and the plural prefix for human nouns starting with mu-(class 1) in most languages is ba-(class 2), thus giving bantu for "people".
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In Chomsky's 1970 [±V, ±N] analysis, words with the feature "plus noun" that are not verbs "minus verb", are predicted to be nouns, while words with the feature "plus verb" and "minus noun" would be verbs. Following from this, when a word has both characteristics of nouns and verbs we get adjectives.