Sound mutations : the morphophonology of Chaha / Degif Petros Banksira.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Banksira, Degif Petros.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chaha dialect--Morphophonemics.

Chaha dialect.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 332 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; [Great Britain] : J. Benjamins Pub, 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This monograph, which evolved from the first linguistic dissertation to be written on Chaha (an Ethiopian Semitic language), is also the first book to deal exclusively with the phonology and morphology of the language. It is an exhaustive description and analysis, by a native speaker, of the sound patterns of this often misdescribed language and deserves to be the standard reference on the phonology of Chaha. The book presents a vast amount of new data and it unearths some fascinating new generalizations about double linking, geminate devoicing, nasalization of liquid consonants, phonotactic constraints within morphemes, and palatalization and labialization triggered by decomposition of a single back high round vowel. The book also challenges the categorization of Semitic subject affixes into prefix and suffix sets, instead proposing a novel classification in which all prefixes and some suffixes form a set that excludes the remaining suffixes. The generalizations and analyses are significant not only for the study of Chaha and Semitic languages, but also for phonological theory in general.

Contents:

SOUND MUTATIONS

Editorial page

Title page

LCC page

Dedication

Table of Contents

List of Tables

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Résumé

Abstract

Introduction

Chapter 1. Phonemes, Syllables, and Stems

Chapter 2. Geminate Devoicing and Degemination

Appendix 2a. On the second-radical vocoid in Amharic

Appendix 2b. On Amharic C1C1C2 verbs

Chapter 3. On the Distribution of [x] and [k]

Chapter 4. Sonorant Alternations

Chapter 5. Initial, Geminate and Post-N Strengthening

Chapter 6. On the Articulators of Consonants

Chapter 7. Labialization and Palatalization Triggered by /U/

Appendix 7. Some factual errors concerning labialization

Chapter 8. Subject Affixes

Chapter 9. Object Clitics

Appendix 9. kft 'open' conjugated

Conclusion

References

Name Index

Subject Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9786612162732

9781282162730

128216273X

9789027298478

9027298475

OCLC:

56119935