Morphology
Word structure in the Mbula language is not complex. There is little inflection of both nouns and verbs and few derivational processes. Most words in the Mbula language are mono-morphemic. Multi-morphemic words can be formed via the following processes:
- indexing on verbs for the person and number of the Subject
- inflection of inalienable nouns for the person and number of their genitives
- reduplication
- derivation of predicates to increase or decrease their transitivity
- compounding
- nominalisation
These processes will be discussed below.
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