The syntactic behaviour of deverbal nouns in Kanuri (Nigeria)

Deverbal nouns in Kanuri have only partly transformed their verbal syntactic features into nominal ones. The purpose of this study is to examine the degree to which deverbal nouns have: a) retained some of their verbal syntactic features, b) a sharp distinction between their nominal and verbal syntactic behaviour, c) lost any distinction between their nominal and verbal syntactic features, or d), given up completely their verbal characteristics. Literature, notes, summary.