Lexical Phonology and Morphology (RLE Linguistics A: General Linguistics)

by Carole Paradis

Overview

This book presents a description of the phonology and morphology of the nominal class system in Fula, a dialect which displays 21 nominal classes. These are identified by suffixes, which can attach to nominal, verbal and adjectival stems. The main objective of this work is to show, through a lexical analysis, that there are only two monomorphemic marker variants, and that the distribution of these variants is predictable.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415715812
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	11/21/2013
Series:	Routledge Library Editions: Linguistics
Pages:	334
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Carole Paradis

Table of Contents

Foreword. Preface. Overview. Acknowledgements. Abbreviations. Introduction. 1. Class Markers in Pulaar 2. The Vowel System 3. Consonants and their Status 4. The Sonority Constraint and Consonant Clusters 5. Syllables, Skeleton and w and y Variants. Conclusion. Bibliography. Lexicon. Pulaar-English Section. English-Pulaar Section