Tone and inflection : new facts and new perspectives /

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Tone is about melody and meaning, inflection is about grammar, and 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. The book includes chapters on both general issues concerning tone and inflection as wel...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Palancar, Enrique L. (Editor ), Léonard, Jean-Léo (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin : Mouton De Gruyter, [2016]
Colección:Trends in linguistics. State-of-the-art report ; 296.
Temas:
Grammar, Comparative and general.
Language and languages > Grammars.
Grammaire comparée et générale.
Grammaires.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Grammar & Punctuation.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Linguistics > Syntax.
Grammar, Comparative and general
Language and languages > Grammars
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of contents
  • 1. Tone and inflection: An introduction
  • Part 1: Tone and inflection: General questions with a focus on inflectional tonogenesis
  • 2. Morphological tonal assignments in conflict: Who wins?
  • 3. Tonogenesis and tonal alternations in Khaling
  • 4. Tonal inflection in Mian
  • 5. Tonal inflection in Mande languages: The cases of Bamana and Dan-Gwɛɛtaa
  • Part 2: Tone and inflection: Insights from the Oto-Manguean languages
  • 6. A typology of tone and inflection: A view from the Oto-Manguean languages of Mexico
  • 7. Tone and inflection in Zenzontepec Chatino
  • 8. Tonal inflection and dialectal variation in Mazatec
  • 9. Tonal overwriting and inflectional exponence in Amuzgo
  • 10. Abstract and concrete tonal classes in Itunyoso Triqui person morphology
  • 11. Tracing the emergence of inflectional tone in Cuicatec
  • 12. Verbal inflection in Yoloxóchitl Mixtec
  • Subject Index
  • Language index

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