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Author Weidert, Alfons

Title Componential Analysis of Lushai Phonology
Published Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 1975

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Description 1 online resource (153 pages)
Series Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science : series 4, Current issues in linguistic theory
Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory.
Contents COMPONENTIAL ANALYSIS; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; PREFACE; Table of contents; 0.0. INTRODUCTION; 1.0. PHONOLOGICAL EXTENSION SYSTEMS; 2.0. MONOMORPHEMIC COMPONENTIAL PHONOLOGY; 3.0. POLYMORPHEMIC COMPONENTIAL PHONOLOGY; 4.0. FURTHER ISSUES CONCERNING THE APPLICATION OF RULES; 5.0. SUMMARY; FOOTNOTES; REFERENCES; INDEXOF TECHNICAL TER
Summary The aim of this essay is to present a phonological analysis of Lushai, a Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Mizoram province of India, in terms of componential features applying - as mutation rules - to the morphophonological level. An analysis of this nature becomes possible if the concepts of phonological extension systems and redundancy-free representations are introduced. Alongside with the phonemic aspect, a semantic analysis of morpheme structure is required yielding the smallest significant units at different morphological or syntactic levels. Though based on criteria implying concept
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Subject Lushai language -- Phonology
Lushai language -- Grammar, Generative
Componential analysis (Linguistics)
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- Southeast Asian Languages.
Componential analysis (Linguistics)
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789027281586
9027281580
1283314592
9781283314596
9786613314598
6613314595