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1 online resource |
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Oxford linguistics |
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The phonology of the world's languages |
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Phonology of the world's languages.
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Oxford linguistics.
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| Contents |
Cover; The Phonology of Chichewa; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Interlinear morpheme glossing conventions; 1: Introduction; 1.1 The Chichewa language; 1.2 Chichewa and phonological theory; 1.3 Goals of this work; 2: Grammatical sketch; 2.1 Phoneme inventory and transcription system; 2.2 Structure of Chichewa words; 2.2.1 Structure of nominals; 2.2.2 Structure of verbs; 2.2.3 Adjectives and adverbials; 2.3 Word order and agreement in noun phrases and verb phrases; 2.3.1 Word order and agreement in the noun phrase; 2.3.2 Word order in the verb phrase; 2.4 Clause structure |
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2.4.1 Word order and agreement within the main clause2.4.2 Structure of questions; 2.4.2.1 Content questions; 2.4.2.2 Polar (choice/yes-no) questions; 2.4.3 Subordinate clause types; 2.4.3.1 Relative clauses; 2.4.3.2 Verb complement clauses; 3: Segmental phonology: Consonants; 3.1 Consonant phoneme inventory; 3.1.1 Standard Chichewa; 3.1.2 Dialect variation; 3.2 The Chichewa consonant inventory and Proto-Bantu; 3.3 Positional restrictions on the distribution of consonants; 3.4 Alternations in NC sequences; 3.4.1 Nasal place assimilation; 3.4.2 Postnasal stop aspiration |
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3.4.3 Other restrictions on NC sequences3.5 Morphologically conditioned consonant mutations; 3.5.1 Root-initial patterns in noun class 5/6; 3.5.2 Causative spirantization; 4: Segmental phonology: Vowels; 4.1 Vowel inventory of Chichewa and relation to Proto-Bantu; 4.2 Positional restrictions on the distribution of vowels; 4.3 Vowel height harmony (VHH); 4.4 Phonological issues and approaches to VHH; 4.4.1 Underspecification analysis of VHH (Moto 1989); 4.4.2 Markedness/faithfulness analysis of VHH (Beckman 1997); 4.4.3 Element/licensing approach to VHH; 4.5 Concluding remarks |
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5: Syllable structure5.1 Overview of possible syllable types; 5.2 Possible consonant sequences and their syllabification; 5.2.1 Consonant glide sequences; 5.2.2 Nasal-homorganic consonant (NC) sequences; 5.3 Epenthesis strategies in loanword adaptation of consonant sequences; 5.4 Syllabic nasals derived from nasal-initial prefixes; 5.4.1 Contraction of copula ndi before associative ya- or wa-; 5.4.2 Contraction of the Object Marker ndi; 5.4.3 Contraction of mu-; 5.5 Vowel sequences and their syllabification; 5.5.1 Glide formation in the inflectional prefix context |
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5.5.2 Vowel deletion in the inflectional prefix context5.5.3 Glide insertion and vowel assimilation at macrostem and stem junctures; 5.5.4 Deletion of demonstrative vowels; 5.5.5 No hiatus resolution across word boundaries; 5.6 Summary and remaining issues; 6: Tonal phonology: Lexical tone patterns; 6.1 Basics of Chichewa tone; 6.2 Tone of nouns and verb stems; 6.2.1 Tone of nouns; 6.2.2 Verb stem tone; 6.3 Processes affecting tone realization; 6.4 Tone patterns of proclitics and enclitics; 6.4.1 Tone doubling and plateauing in proclitics; 6.4.2 Tone shift in enclitics |
| Summary |
This book provides thorough descriptive and theory-neutral coverage of the full range of phonological phenomena of Chichewa, a Malawian Bantu language. It covers topics such as vowel harmony, nasal place assimilation, postnasal laryngeal alternations, tonal phenomena, prosodic morphology, and the phonology-syntax interface |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed June 9, 2017) |
| Subject |
Chewa dialect -- Phonology
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FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- African Languages.
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Chewa dialect -- Phonology
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Language and languages
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| SUBJECT |
Malawi -- Languages.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh93006889
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Malawi
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Mtenje, Alfred James Dailex, author.
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| ISBN |
9780191792281 |
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0191792284 |
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9780191037733 |
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0191037737 |
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