Aspects of the Morphology and Phonology of Ko̳nni
Title | Aspects of the Morphology and Phonology of Ko̳nni PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Cahill |
Publisher | Sil International, Global Publishing |
Pages | 546 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Foreign Language Study |
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This study combines a descriptive and theoretical presentation of Kɔnni, a Gur language of northern Ghana. It presents an Optimality Theory analysis of the entire phonological system. The descriptions are separated from the formal analyses in order to facilitate use by both descriptivists and theoreticians.Morphology is described, including the noun class system, reduplicative agentive nouns, noun-adjective complexes, nominal derivations, and various verbal aspectual suffixes. Major sections are included on consonants, vowels, and tone. The volume also includes a brief syntax sketch, co occurrence restrictions, phoneme frequency counts, measurements of segment durations and vowel formants, and seven appendices of data. Selected notes of interest:? Some phonology is limited to only certain noun classes.' The 9-vowel ATR vowel system and diphthongization are integrally related.' Certain vowels assimilate only across consonants having the same place feature. ? Tonal perturbations require four different underlying representations for different nouns which have a surface [LH] tone.' True tonal polarity is distinct from dissimilation.' Two cases of syntax-phonology interface are demonstrated.Michael Cahill (Ph.D., linguistics, The Ohio State University, 1999) has been with SIL since 1982, and worked on site with Kɔnni speakers from 1986 to 1993. He was a member of the LSA's Committee on Endangered Languages and their Preservation from 2001-2003, chairing it in 2003. He is an adjunct faculty member of the University of Texas at Arlington and of the Graduate Institute of Applied Linguistics and is currently based in Dallas as the International Linguistics Coordinator of SIL.
Aspects of the Morphology and Phonology of Konni
Title | Aspects of the Morphology and Phonology of Konni PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Cahill |
Publisher | |
Pages | 541 |
Release | 1999 |
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Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 1153 |
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ISBN | 0192561480 |
Edinburgh Handbook of Evaluative Morphology
Title | Edinburgh Handbook of Evaluative Morphology PDF eBook |
Author | Nicola Grandi |
Publisher | Edinburgh University Press |
Pages | 847 |
Release | 2015-06-03 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 0748681779 |
Reviews and debates the latest theoretical approaches to evaluative morphology
Intonation in African Tone Languages
Title | Intonation in African Tone Languages PDF eBook |
Author | Laura J. Downing |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Pages | 448 |
Release | 2016-11-07 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 3110503522 |
This volume brings together two under-investigated areas of intonation typology. While tone languages make up to 70 percent of the world’s languages, only few have been explored for intonation. And even though one third of the world’s languages are spoken in Africa, and most sub-Saharan languages are tone languages, recent collections on tone and intonation typology have almost entirely ignored African languages. This book aims to fill this gap.
The Expression of Information Structure
Title | The Expression of Information Structure PDF eBook |
Author | Ines Fiedler |
Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing |
Pages | 401 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9027206724 |
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Aspects of the Morphology and Phonology of KN̉NI
Title | Aspects of the Morphology and Phonology of KN̉NI PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Clark Cahill |
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Pages | 1082 |
Release | 2000 |
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