Tone and inflection : new facts and new perspectives


edited by Enrique L. Palancar and Jean Léo Léonard
Bok Engelsk 2016
Medvirkende
Utgitt
Berlin : De Gruyter Mouton , cop. 2016
Omfang
VI, 342 s. : ill.
Opplysninger
Tone and inflection : an introduction / Enrique L. Palancar and Jean Léo Léonard -- Tone and inflection : General questions with a focus on inflectional tonogenesis -- Morphological tonal assignments in conflict : who wins? / Larry M. Hyman -- Tonogenesis and tonal alternations in Khaling / Guillaume Jacques -- Tonal inflection in Mian / Sebastian Fedden -- Tonal inflection in Mande languages : the cases of Bamana and Dan-Gweetaa / Valentin Vydrin -- Tone and inflection : insights from the Oto-Manguean languages -- A typology of tone and inflection : a view from the Oto-Manguean languages of Mexico / Enrique L. Palancar -- Tone and inflection in Zenzontepec Chatino / Eric Campbell -- Tonal inflection and dialectal variation in Mazatec / Jean Léo Léonard and Julien Fulcrand -- Tonal overwriting and inflectional exponence in Amuzgo / Yuni Kim -- Abstract and concrete tonal classes in Itunyoso Triqui person morphology / Christian T. DiCanio -- Tracing the emergence of inflectional tone in Cuicatec / Timothy Feist and Enrique L. Palancar -- Verbal Inflection in Yoloxóchitl Mixtec / Enrique L. Palancar, Jonathan D. Amith and Rey Castillo García -- Subject Index -- Language index.. - Tone is about melody and meaning, inflection is about grammar. This book is about a bit of both by studying complex ways in which the tones of a given language engage in the expression of grammatical meaning. It includes also case studies on lesser known languages of Asia, Africa, Papua New Guinea, and Mesoamerica - Omslaget
Emner
Dewey
416 . - 415.95
ISBN
9783110450026

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