The morphology and phonology of the nominal domain in Tagbana
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Yranahan Traoré
The book investigates the morphology and phonology of the nominal domain in Tagbana of the Senufo group of Côte d’Ivoire. The nominal domain is the locus of a phenomenon called ‘alliterative concord’, a special kind of concord expressed by consonantal alliteration. All dependent morphemes of a head noun share articulatory features, which are realized on the onset of the first syllable of each morpheme. In this way, the articulatory features signal the class of the dependent morphemes. This volume also discusses the segment inventory and the syllable structure and describes the complex noun operations in the nominal domain. Distributed Morphology and Optimal Theory form the theoretical background of the empirical facts.
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- Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Warszawa, Wien, 2020. 252 pp., 3 fig. col., 23 fig. b/w, 88 tables.
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- About the author
- About the book
- This eBook can be cited
- Preface and Acknowledgement
- Content
- Abstract
- List of abbreviations
- 1 Introduction
- 1.1 Introduction
- 1.2 Tagbana
- 1.3 Social and political organization
- 1.4 Habitat, cultural life, economy, and religion
- 1.5 Fròʔò (Tagbana)
- 1.6 Previous works
- 1.7 Data collection
- 1.8 Structure of the book
- 2 The sounds of Fròʔò
- 2.1 Introduction
- 2.2 Phonemes of Fròʔò
- 2.3 Distinctive features
- 2.4 Feature geometry
- 2.5 Allophonic alternations
- 2.6 Tones of Fròʔò
- 3 Syllable structure and syllabification
- 3.1 Introduction
- 3.2 Underlying syllable structure
- 3.3 Nasal syllables
- 3.4 Loanwords
- 3.5 Resyllabification
- 3.6 OT applied on the syllable structure
- 3.7 Conclusion
- 4 Nominal classes and the concord system in Fròʔò
- 4.1 Nominal classes
- 4.2 Noun classes in Niger-Congo languages
- 4.3 Noun class system in Fròʔò (Tagbana)
- Conclusion
- 5 Agreeing/concording morphemes and alliterative concord
- 5.1 Introduction
- 5.2 Word order in the nominal phrase
- 5.3 Functional morphemes
- 5.4 Agreeing dependent functional morphemes
- 5.5 Illustration of agreement in dependent morphemes
- 5.6 Morphosyntax and VI19
- 5.7 The role of phonology
- 5.8 Discussion and additional comment on nouns
- 5.9 Conclusion
- 6 Nominal derivation in Fròʔò
- 6.1 Inflection and derivation
- 6.2 Denominal derivation
- 6.3 Deverbal nouns
- 6.4 Deadjectival nouns
- 6.5 Conclusion
- 7 Compounding and complex noun formation
- 7.1 Noun + noun (N+N) compounds
- 7.2 Noun + verb (N+V) compounds: (Nroot + Vroot) + nominalizer
- 7.3 Noun + adjective (N+A) compounds
- 7.4 Compounds with more than one adjectival root
- 7.5 Conclusion
- 8 Summary and conclusion
- Appendix
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- References
- Series index
List of abbreviations
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- Title
- Copyright
- About the author
- About the book
- This eBook can be cited
- Preface and Acknowledgement
- Content
- Abstract
- List of abbreviations
- 1 Introduction
- 1.1 Introduction
- 1.2 Tagbana
- 1.3 Social and political organization
- 1.4 Habitat, cultural life, economy, and religion
- 1.5 Fròʔò (Tagbana)
- 1.6 Previous works
- 1.7 Data collection
- 1.8 Structure of the book
- 2 The sounds of Fròʔò
- 2.1 Introduction
- 2.2 Phonemes of Fròʔò
- 2.3 Distinctive features
- 2.4 Feature geometry
- 2.5 Allophonic alternations
- 2.6 Tones of Fròʔò
- 3 Syllable structure and syllabification
- 3.1 Introduction
- 3.2 Underlying syllable structure
- 3.3 Nasal syllables
- 3.4 Loanwords
- 3.5 Resyllabification
- 3.6 OT applied on the syllable structure
- 3.7 Conclusion
- 4 Nominal classes and the concord system in Fròʔò
- 4.1 Nominal classes
- 4.2 Noun classes in Niger-Congo languages
- 4.3 Noun class system in Fròʔò (Tagbana)
- Conclusion
- 5 Agreeing/concording morphemes and alliterative concord
- 5.1 Introduction
- 5.2 Word order in the nominal phrase
- 5.3 Functional morphemes
- 5.4 Agreeing dependent functional morphemes
- 5.5 Illustration of agreement in dependent morphemes
- 5.6 Morphosyntax and VI19
- 5.7 The role of phonology
- 5.8 Discussion and additional comment on nouns
- 5.9 Conclusion
- 6 Nominal derivation in Fròʔò
- 6.1 Inflection and derivation
- 6.2 Denominal derivation
- 6.3 Deverbal nouns
- 6.4 Deadjectival nouns
- 6.5 Conclusion
- 7 Compounding and complex noun formation
- 7.1 Noun + noun (N+N) compounds
- 7.2 Noun + verb (N+V) compounds: (Nroot + Vroot) + nominalizer
- 7.3 Noun + adjective (N+A) compounds
- 7.4 Compounds with more than one adjectival root
- 7.5 Conclusion
- 8 Summary and conclusion
- Appendix
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- References
- Series index