Polarity, Low Tone Spread, and Underspecification in the Kabiye Verb Phrase

This autosegmental analysis of Kabiye verbal derivations and inflections demonstrates that tone patterns on adjectives and locative nominalizations are not the underlying forms of verb roots, as claimed by previous researchers, because they are in complementary distribution. Rather, verb roots are...

Description complète

Enregistré dans:

Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal:	David Roberts
Format:	article
Langue:	EN FR
Publié:	LibraryPress@UF 2021
Sujets:	Autosegmenal phonology tonal polarity tone spread underspecification stray erasure Kabiye Philology. Linguistics P1-1091
Accès en ligne:	https://doaj.org/article/32e4a7fc80ea4ea8bce8b2b6d40fe67c
Tags:	Ajouter un tag Pas de tags, Soyez le premier à ajouter un tag!

id	oai:doaj.org-article:32e4a7fc80ea4ea8bce8b2b6d40fe67c
record_format	dspace
spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:32e4a7fc80ea4ea8bce8b2b6d40fe67c2021-11-19T03:51:44ZPolarity, Low Tone Spread, and Underspecification in the Kabiye Verb Phrase10.32473/sal.v50i1.1287760039-35332154-428Xhttps://doaj.org/article/32e4a7fc80ea4ea8bce8b2b6d40fe67c2021-04-01T00:00:00Zhttps://journals.flvc.org/sal/article/view/128776https://doaj.org/toc/0039-3533https://doaj.org/toc/2154-428X This autosegmental analysis of Kabiye verbal derivations and inflections demonstrates that tone patterns on adjectives and locative nominalizations are not the underlying forms of verb roots, as claimed by previous researchers, because they are in complementary distribution. Rather, verb roots are analyzed as being underlyingly /H, L/, and two additional morphological elements – verbal extensions and TAM prefixes – both reveal a ternary /H, -L, -∅/ contrast. In toneless extensions, this resolves an adjacency issue with regard to polarity of the TAM suffix, while the three floating tonal TAM prefixes either block, pre-empt or permit L tone spread from the subject pronoun onto the stem. The result is an integrated analysis of derivational and inflectional forms that dovetails with a previous analysis of the associative noun phrase. David RobertsLibraryPress@UFarticleAutosegmenal phonologytonal polaritytone spreadunderspecificationstray erasureKabiyePhilology. LinguisticsP1-1091ENFRStudies in African Linguistics, Vol 50, Iss 1 (2021)
institution	DOAJ
collection	DOAJ
language	EN FR
topic	Autosegmenal phonology tonal polarity tone spread underspecification stray erasure Kabiye Philology. Linguistics P1-1091
spellingShingle	Autosegmenal phonology tonal polarity tone spread underspecification stray erasure Kabiye Philology. Linguistics P1-1091 David Roberts Polarity, Low Tone Spread, and Underspecification in the Kabiye Verb Phrase
description	This autosegmental analysis of Kabiye verbal derivations and inflections demonstrates that tone patterns on adjectives and locative nominalizations are not the underlying forms of verb roots, as claimed by previous researchers, because they are in complementary distribution. Rather, verb roots are analyzed as being underlyingly /H, L/, and two additional morphological elements – verbal extensions and TAM prefixes – both reveal a ternary /H, -L, -∅/ contrast. In toneless extensions, this resolves an adjacency issue with regard to polarity of the TAM suffix, while the three floating tonal TAM prefixes either block, pre-empt or permit L tone spread from the subject pronoun onto the stem. The result is an integrated analysis of derivational and inflectional forms that dovetails with a previous analysis of the associative noun phrase.
format	article
author	David Roberts
author_facet	David Roberts
author_sort	David Roberts
title	Polarity, Low Tone Spread, and Underspecification in the Kabiye Verb Phrase
title_short	Polarity, Low Tone Spread, and Underspecification in the Kabiye Verb Phrase
title_full	Polarity, Low Tone Spread, and Underspecification in the Kabiye Verb Phrase
title_fullStr	Polarity, Low Tone Spread, and Underspecification in the Kabiye Verb Phrase
title_full_unstemmed	Polarity, Low Tone Spread, and Underspecification in the Kabiye Verb Phrase
title_sort	polarity, low tone spread, and underspecification in the kabiye verb phrase
publisher	LibraryPress@UF
publishDate	2021
url	https://doaj.org/article/32e4a7fc80ea4ea8bce8b2b6d40fe67c
work_keys_str_mv	AT davidroberts polaritylowtonespreadandunderspecificationinthekabiyeverbphrase
_version_	1718420601640583168

Polarity, Low Tone Spread, and Underspecification in the Kabiye Verb Phrase

Documents similaires