A Grammar of Hdi

Frajzyngier, Zygmunt

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“…As said before, such a language is unattested. The only counterexample I am aware of is due to Frajzyngier & Shay (2002), who describe the Chadic language Hdi as having floating tones that demand the insertion of epenthetic vowels. The data that they offer is however not conclusive: The most clear-cut case, the wh-pronoun [nú], is described in one part as consisting only of the consonant and the floating tone (Frajzyngier & Shay 2002: 31), at a later point, the vowel is analysed as part of the affix (Frajzyngier & Shay 2002: 356).…”

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A feeding Duke-of-York interaction of tone and epenthesis in Arapaho

Gleim

2019

Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics

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In the Algonquian language Arapaho, epenthetic vowels only show up if they can attract an underlying floating high tone. I argue that this co-dependency of tone and epenthesis should not be analysed as tone-triggered epenthesis (which has been claimed not to exist, Blumenfeld 2006). Instead, I conclude that the pattern should be analysed as an opaque interaction of epenthesis, tone assignment and vowel deletion. Since the epenthetic vowel is first inserted and later deleted, this interaction constitutes an instance of what is called a Duke-of-York gambit or derivation -more precisely a feeding Duke-of-York derivation, because the epenthetic vowel leaves traces behind. This type of opacity is conceptually intriguing for both constraint and rule-based models of phonology, but proves especially problematic for Optimality Theory (OT). I claim that the best analysis with constraint-based frameworks lies in the adoption of Stratal OT (Kiparsky 2000; Bermúdez-Otero 2011). Epenthesis applies in a first stratum where the epenthetic vowel is involved in segmental processes, deletion then applies on a higher stratum.

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A feeding Duke-of-York interaction of tone and epenthesis in Arapaho

Gleim

2019

Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics

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“…Scholars of African languages have noticed the presence of two aspectual and tense systems (Gouffé, 1966(Gouffé, , 1967(Gouffé, , 1968Hyman and Watters, 1984;Caron, 1986 andRobert, 1991;Pawlak, 1993;Jungraithmayr, 1994 and references there;Newman, 2000 and numerous other grammars of Chadic languages e.g. Frajzyngier with Shay, 2002;Frajzyngier and Johnston, with Edwards, 2005;Frajzyngier, 2008). In some Chadic languages, tense and aspectual systems mark the distinction between pragmatically dependent and pragmatically independent clauses.…”

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“…Other languages have different coding means and code different functions. For example, a number of Chadic languages, such as Mupun (Frajzyngier, 1993) and Hdi (Frajzyngier with Shay, 2002), code the function 'previous mention' , which is distinct from deixis and different from the category 'definite' in English and French. The structure of the reference system in Hdi is as follows:…”

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Information Structure and Reference Systems: Toward a Non-Aprioristic Typology

Frajzyngier

2018

Journal of Language Contact

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The present article proposes a non-aprioristic approach to analyzing the domains of information structure and reference systems. The article is inspired by the papers in Information structuring of spoken language from a cross-linguistic perspective (Fernandez-Vest and Van Valin (eds.), 2016), and from my own research on languages for which only spoken data exist. As an outcome of this study it may turn out that 'information structure' and 'reference system' each constitute a distinct functional domain in some languages.

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“…The use of CDs to signal verb or predicate focus appears to be particularly common in Biu-Mandara languages of the Nigeria-Cameroon border area including Guduf, Lamang, Podoko (Wolff 2003), Gidar (Frajzyngier 2008) and Hdi (Frajzyngier & Shay 2002). For instance, in Gidar predicate focus constructions, a cognate infinitive form of the verb is obligatorily employed.…”

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Aspectual and focal functions of Cognate Head-Dependent Constructions: Evidence from Africa

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2014

Linguistic Typology

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Cognate-Head-Dependent Constructions (CHDCs) are employed across numerous genera in Africa to signpost alternations in the aspectual characteristics of a predicate or the information focus of a clause. The co-occurrence of a finite lexical verb (the cognate head) and an etymologically related (deverbal) noun or non-finite verb form (the cognate dependent) in such structures is interpreted with reference to the scalar semantics of events and properties. Within this areal typology, CHDCs are employed to indicate either (i) a high point relative to a norm on a semantic scale, or (ii) a conventionally low-ranked possibility, in order to implicitly contrast possible alternatives.

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A Grammar of Hdi

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A feeding Duke-of-York interaction of tone and epenthesis in Arapaho

A feeding Duke-of-York interaction of tone and epenthesis in Arapaho

Information Structure and Reference Systems: Toward a Non-Aprioristic Typology

Aspectual and focal functions of Cognate Head-Dependent Constructions: Evidence from Africa

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