The borrowing of aspects as lexical tone classes Y-intial Tuareg verbs in Tasawaq

In Tasawaq, a Northern Songhay language of Niger, there exists a lexical tone class distinction between stative and active verbs. This tone class distinction only exists in one class of verbs borrowed from Tuareg, verbs with an initial y-. In this article, I argue that the tone class distinction ref...

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Autor principal:	Maarten Kossmann
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Publicado:	LibraryPress@UF 2007
Materias:	Tasawaq Songhay Tuareg tone perfective Philology. Linguistics P1-1091
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:ce821efd1c784ba285d9cea2f3c2f6312021-11-19T03:52:52ZThe borrowing of aspects as lexical tone classes Y-intial Tuareg verbs in Tasawaq10.32473/sal.v36i2.1073020039-35332154-428Xhttps://doaj.org/article/ce821efd1c784ba285d9cea2f3c2f6312007-06-01T00:00:00Zhttps://journals.flvc.org/sal/article/view/107302https://doaj.org/toc/0039-3533https://doaj.org/toc/2154-428XIn Tasawaq, a Northern Songhay language of Niger, there exists a lexical tone class distinction between stative and active verbs. This tone class distinction only exists in one class of verbs borrowed from Tuareg, verbs with an initial y-. In this article, I argue that the tone class distinction reflects the Tuareg difference between a Short Perfective aspect, used in active contexts, and a Long Perfective aspect, which is mainly found in stative contexts. In Tasawaq, this aspectual distinction has been reinterpreted as a difference in lexical class.Maarten KossmannLibraryPress@UFarticleTasawaqSonghayTuaregtoneperfectivePhilology. LinguisticsP1-1091ENFRStudies in African Linguistics, Vol 36, Iss 2 (2007)
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description	In Tasawaq, a Northern Songhay language of Niger, there exists a lexical tone class distinction between stative and active verbs. This tone class distinction only exists in one class of verbs borrowed from Tuareg, verbs with an initial y-. In this article, I argue that the tone class distinction reflects the Tuareg difference between a Short Perfective aspect, used in active contexts, and a Long Perfective aspect, which is mainly found in stative contexts. In Tasawaq, this aspectual distinction has been reinterpreted as a difference in lexical class.
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title	The borrowing of aspects as lexical tone classes Y-intial Tuareg verbs in Tasawaq
title_short	The borrowing of aspects as lexical tone classes Y-intial Tuareg verbs in Tasawaq
title_full	The borrowing of aspects as lexical tone classes Y-intial Tuareg verbs in Tasawaq
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title_full_unstemmed	The borrowing of aspects as lexical tone classes Y-intial Tuareg verbs in Tasawaq
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The borrowing of aspects as lexical tone classes Y-intial Tuareg verbs in Tasawaq

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