The morphology and phonology of the nominal domain in Tagbana

Traoré, Yranahan

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“…Compounding is commonly assumed in descriptions of various Gur languages as an explanation for the post-adjectival position of the noun class marker (Carlson 1994: 164; Dombrowsky-Hahn 2015: 228; Creissels 2018: 733–736, inter alia). It is also assumed, based on phonological evidence, in the study of another Senufo language, Tagbana, in Traoré 2020; see also Rialland et al 2021. We believe that the phonological evidence is compatible with the analysis of noun class markers as clitics, if they are viewed as belonging to the same phonological word as their host.…”

Section: The Structure Of the Noun Phrase In Kafirementioning

confidence: 53%

“…Silué 2017 gives a brief sketch of the noun class system but does not describe the phenomena that we discuss here. Descriptions of noun class systems can be found in grammars of other Senufo languages (Carlson 1994, Dombrowsky-Hahn 2015, as well as in formally oriented studies by Baron 2016 (for Nafara) and Traoré & Féry 2018, Traoré 2020. Yéo 2012 is a comparative study of data from several languages.…”

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“…We depart in our treatment from traditional accounts of Senufo noun class markers (Carlson 1994: 76;Manessy 1996aManessy , 1996bYéo 2012;Traoré & Féry 2018;Traoré 2020). Instead of analyzing them as nominal suffixes, we treat them, with Baron 2016, as clitics attaching to the last element of the noun phrase, which can be a noun or an adjective.…”

Section: Noun Class Markers Are Determiners Not Suffixesmentioning

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“…Our arrangement differs from the one adopted in Miehe & Winkelmann, eds. (2007) for Gur and those in Traoré & Féry 2018 and Traoré 2020 for Tagbana in that it does not treat the singular and the plural markers as separate classes. Definite noun class markers are listed in Table 2.…”

Section: The Noun Class System Of Kafirementioning

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“…In (5), for example, the demonstratives are in Class 2 and Class 3 because of the adjectives, even though the head noun pɔ̰̄ ‘dog’ is normally Class 1 (as shown above).

Another non-trivial property of the noun class system of Kafire (and apparently Senufo languages more generally, cf. Traoré 2020 for parallel data from Tagbana) is the way noun class markers can contribute their own meaning. Some of the noun class markers can combine with a noun that normally does not belong to that class, resulting in a change in the noun’s denotational meaning.…”

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Noun class agreement in Kafire (Senufo): A Lexical-Functional Grammar account

SILUÉ¹

2022

J. Ling.

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A major challenge presented by noun class systems of Senufo languages is the non-trivial interaction between the agreement features of the noun phrase and the noun class specification on the head noun. In Kafire (Senufo, Côte d’Ivoire), demonstratives normally agree with the head noun independent of whether or not the head noun is modified by adjectives. Some adjectives, however, are exceptions to the general rule: in their presence the demonstrative appears in Class 2 or 3 (depending on the adjective), and fails to agree with the head noun. We present an account of the exceptional behavior of such adjectives within the framework of Lexical-Functional Grammar. We show that agreement in Kafire is a heterogeneous phenomenon that is best viewed as transitional between a system of semantically motivated agreement and a system of noun classes that is no longer dependent on meaning. Vestiges of the old system have been preserved in a variety of phenomena that have to be addressed individually using different kinds of formal tools provided by the framework. The variety of formal devices required to describe the functioning of the agreement system reflects the complex diachrony and the cross-modal (lexico-syntactic) synchronic nature of agreement phenomena.

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Section: The Structure Of the Noun Phrase In Kafirementioning

confidence: 53%

Section: Background Informationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Noun Class Markers Are Determiners Not Suffixesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: The Noun Class System Of Kafirementioning

confidence: 99%

“…In (5), for example, the demonstratives are in Class 2 and Class 3 because of the adjectives, even though the head noun pɔ̰̄ ‘dog’ is normally Class 1 (as shown above).

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Noun class agreement in Kafire (Senufo): A Lexical-Functional Grammar account

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2022

J. Ling.

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A Morphophonological Approach of Vowels Lengthening in Tagbana

Traore

2024

IJAMRS

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In this article, vowel lengthening word internally in Tagbana, a Senufo language of Côte d’Ivoire is investigated. All vowels are underlyingly short, and all long vowels are the result of a lengthening process. Various lengthening processing are observed in Tagbana. (i) A lengthening due to the fusion of two independent morphemes, an aspect morpheme and a resumptive pronoun. (ii) Lengthening due intonation parameters where sentences last vowels are lengthening for interrogation purposes. See section 2.5 for these lengthening forms. (iii) Vowel lengthening due to the presence of two consonantal segments [l] and [r] in certain morphological environments. It is this late form of lengthening that attract my intention in this paper. It is proposed then that these consonantal segments have a double skeletal position which one is filled by the preceding vocalic segment. The consonants that trigger lengthening function as domain delimiters where both phonology and morphology play important roles. While [r] regularly triggers lengthening in Tagbana, some exceptions arise with [l]. A possible alternative is explored: It is proposed that lengthened vowels by lateral [l] get prominence during their pronunciation, as a consequence of lexical accent. Lengthening is accounted for by using locality conditions as proposed in Distributed Morphology.

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The morphology and phonology of the nominal domain in Tagbana

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Noun class agreement in Kafire (Senufo): A Lexical-Functional Grammar account

Noun class agreement in Kafire (Senufo): A Lexical-Functional Grammar account

A Morphophonological Approach of Vowels Lengthening in Tagbana

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