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Title
A sketch of lower nyole tone |
Full text
https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/8532106; http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-8532106 |
Date
2017 |
Author(s)
Marlo, Michael R; Nabirye, Minah; Kawalya, Deo; de Schryver, Gilles-Maurice |
Abstract
This paper presents an overview of the tone system of Lower Nyole (LN), a moribund and previously unrecognized variety of Nyole (JE35) spoken in southern Busoga. After providing a preliminary study of tonal patterns in nouns, we show that LN has a 'reversive' tone system with two tonal classes of verbs ' (i) verbs which are underlyingly toneless and (ii) historically *H-toned verbs which synchronically have an initial /L/ tone. All known verbal contexts of LN are inflected with a melodic tone pattern, i.e. there are no tonally uninflected constructions. Like other Luyia languages, LN has a large number of tonal inflections, which are characterized by the assignment of Hs to positions at the edges of the verb stem. An additional noteworthy property of LN verb tone is that long vowels that precede NC clusters are treated like short vowels by tone assignment principles. |
Subject(s)
Languages and Literatures; Bantu; Luyia; Lower Nyole; tense-aspect-mood; verb tone; noun tone |
Language
eng |
Type of publication
journalArticle; info:eu-repo/semantics/article; info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion |
Source
AFRICANA LINGUISTICA; ISSN: 0065-4124 |
Repository
Gent - University of Gent
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