Phonological allomorphy in Swahili on the form of inanimate pronominal clitics

Swahili has two forms of inanimate pronominal clitics. One, like the relative pronouns, typically ends with /o/ and the other, like the subject agreement affixes, are never /o/ final. According to the traditionalists, a semantic feature associated with /o/ differentiates two sets of clitics semantic...

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Autor principal:	Camillia N. Barrett-Keach
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Publicado:	LibraryPress@UF 1987
Materias:	Swahili relative pronoun agreement syntax autosegmental phonology morphology Philology. Linguistics P1-1091
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:71b081fb301c4695a629dd8b0f09e1da2021-11-19T03:54:57ZPhonological allomorphy in Swahili on the form of inanimate pronominal clitics10.32473/sal.v18i3.1074690039-35332154-428Xhttps://doaj.org/article/71b081fb301c4695a629dd8b0f09e1da1987-12-01T00:00:00Zhttps://journals.flvc.org/sal/article/view/107469https://doaj.org/toc/0039-3533https://doaj.org/toc/2154-428XSwahili has two forms of inanimate pronominal clitics. One, like the relative pronouns, typically ends with /o/ and the other, like the subject agreement affixes, are never /o/ final. According to the traditionalists, a semantic feature associated with /o/ differentiates two sets of clitics semantically as well as phonetically. The present account argues that the two sets do not form separate morphemes. They are instead allomorphs of the same morpheme derived by a phonological rule, o-Epenthesis, which suffixes /o/ onto any constituent final pronominal clitic. This virtually exceptionless account provides synchronic evidence for a dual constituent analysis of the verbal complex. The discussion of such well known forms adopts basic assumptions from lexical and auto segmental phonology.Camillia N. Barrett-KeachLibraryPress@UFarticleSwahilirelative pronounagreementsyntaxautosegmental phonologymorphologyPhilology. LinguisticsP1-1091ENFRStudies in African Linguistics, Vol 18, Iss 3 (1987)
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topic	Swahili relative pronoun agreement syntax autosegmental phonology morphology Philology. Linguistics P1-1091
spellingShingle	Swahili relative pronoun agreement syntax autosegmental phonology morphology Philology. Linguistics P1-1091 Camillia N. Barrett-Keach Phonological allomorphy in Swahili on the form of inanimate pronominal clitics
description	Swahili has two forms of inanimate pronominal clitics. One, like the relative pronouns, typically ends with /o/ and the other, like the subject agreement affixes, are never /o/ final. According to the traditionalists, a semantic feature associated with /o/ differentiates two sets of clitics semantically as well as phonetically. The present account argues that the two sets do not form separate morphemes. They are instead allomorphs of the same morpheme derived by a phonological rule, o-Epenthesis, which suffixes /o/ onto any constituent final pronominal clitic. This virtually exceptionless account provides synchronic evidence for a dual constituent analysis of the verbal complex. The discussion of such well known forms adopts basic assumptions from lexical and auto segmental phonology.
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title	Phonological allomorphy in Swahili on the form of inanimate pronominal clitics
title_short	Phonological allomorphy in Swahili on the form of inanimate pronominal clitics
title_full	Phonological allomorphy in Swahili on the form of inanimate pronominal clitics
title_fullStr	Phonological allomorphy in Swahili on the form of inanimate pronominal clitics
title_full_unstemmed	Phonological allomorphy in Swahili on the form of inanimate pronominal clitics
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Phonological allomorphy in Swahili on the form of inanimate pronominal clitics

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