The Phonology of Chichewa
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| Verlag | Oxford University Press |
| Auflage | 2017 |
| Seiten | 312 |
| Format | 17,0 x 24,4 x 2,2 cm |
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| Gewicht | 625 g |
| Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
| Reihe | The Phonology of the World's Languages |
| ISBN-10 | 0198724748 |
| EAN | 9780198724742 |
| Bestell-Nr | 19872474EA |
This book provides thorough descriptive and atheoretical coverage of the full range of phonological phenomena of Chichewa, a Malawian Bantu language. It covers topics such as vowel harmony, nasal place assimilation, postnasal laryngeal alternations, tonal phenomena, prosodic morphology, and the phonology-syntax interface.
This book provides thorough descriptive and theory-neutral coverage of the full range of phonological phenomena of Chichewa, a Malawian Bantu language. Bantu languages have played and continue to play an important role as a source of data illustrating core phonological processes such as vowel harmony, nasal place assimilation, postnasal laryngeal alternations, tonal phenomena such as High tone spread and the OCP, prosodic morphology, and the phonology-syntax interface. Chichewa, in particular, has been a key language in the development of theoretical approaches to these phenomena. In this volume, Laura Downing and Al Mtenje examine not only these well-known features of Chichewa but also less well-studied phonological topics such as positional asymmetries in the distribution of segments, the phonetics of tone, and intonation. They survey important recent theoretical approaches to phonological problems such as focus prosody, reduplication, and vowel harmony, where Chichewa data is r outinely referred to in the literature. The book will serve as a resource for all phonologists interested in these processes, regardless of their theoretical background, as well as Bantu scholars and linguists working on interface issues.
Inhaltsverzeichnis:
1: Introduction
2: Grammatical sketch
3: Segmental phonology: Consonants
4: Segmental phonology: Vowels
5: Syllable structure
6: Tonal phonology: Lexical tone patterns
7: Grammatical tone patterns of affirmative main clause verbs
8: Grammatical tone patterns of negative and relative verbs
9: Prosodic morphology
10: Phrasal phonology
11: Intonation
