Word‑level replacive tonal patterns in mande nominal constructions: On Christopher Green’s binary typology1

Konoshenko, Maria

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“…Green (2018a) shows that tonal compactness is observed in each taxonomic branch of Western Mande proposed in Vydrin (2009;2016a), with a major division in sub-types being between Central Mande and Soso-Southwestern Mande. Konoshenko (2018) points out that Green's survey falls short of providing a clear typological picture of the phenomenon and, by extension, of THM in Mande more broadly, owing in part to the fact that it includes no coverage for Southern and Eastern Mande languages. The current paper fills this gap in coverage, and in doing so, provides a clearer picture of THM across the entire family, both in terms of being able to better define basic patterns and in identifying and offering an explanation for other outlying outcomes.…”

Section: Basics Of Mande and Mande Tonementioning

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Tonal head marking in Mande compounds: endpoint neutralization and outliers

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2022

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and Elena Perekhvalskaya) which allowed us to expand our survey. Thanks also to Gary Mullin for graphic design assistance. Maria Konoshenko's participation in this research is supported, in part, by the Russian Science Foundation, project 17-78-20071 "Languages of West Africa: description and comparative analysis." The authors' names are listed in alphabetical order; each contributed equally to the manuscript.2 To remain consistent, and due to differing transcription practices in consulted sources, we use the following conventions throughout this paper to indicate tone on a given tone

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Section: Basics Of Mande and Mande Tonementioning

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Tonal head marking in Mande compounds: endpoint neutralization and outliers

Green¹,

Konoshenko²

2022

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“…comm.). On replacive tonal patterns in Mande, including the construct form, see Green (2018) and Konoshenko (2018).…”

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A typological portrait of Mano, Southern Mande

Khachaturyan

2020

Linguistic Typology

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This paper provides a typological survey of Mano, a Mande language of Guinea and Liberia. It sketches a linguistic portrait of Mano as a representative member of the Southern branch of the Mande family. The family features shared by Mano include S-Aux-O-V-X word order, the parallelism between nominal and verbal syntax, and the ubiquity of passive lability. The branch features include rich tonal morphology, the unstable character of nasal consonants, and rich pronominal paradigms, including auxiliaries that index the person and number of the subject. Some of the features presented here have not been sufficiently analyzed in the Mandeist literature, so it is unclear how unusual Mano is in comparison to other Mande languages in terms of the large class of inalienably possessed nouns, or the clause-level nominalization that may include another clause as its constituent. Finally, some properties are almost certainly specific to Mano, such as the dedicated tonal forms used in conditional clauses. This paper puts Mano in its typological context, elaborating on those features which are cross linguistically well attested versus those which are cross linguistically rare.

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“…In the last two and a half decades, there has been a surge of in-depth descriptive and analytic work on such patterns of grammatical tone (hereafter GT). In Africa, a sample of families in which GT is pervasive include Dogon (Heath 2008; McPherson 2014; McPherson & Heath 2016), Mabia/Gur (Hyman & Olawsky 2003; Roberts 2016), Mande (McPherson 2017, 2019; Green 2018; Konoshenko 2018), Ijoid (Efere 2001; Harry 2004; Harry & Hyman 2014; Rolle 2021), Bantu (Odden & Bickmore 2014) and Nilotic (Andersen 1995; Trommer 2011), among others. Extensive work on GT has been conducted outside of Africa, as well.…”

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Theoretical approaches to grammatical tone

Lionnet,

McPherson,

Rolle

2022

Phonology

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Tone is distinct from other phonological phenomena both qualitatively and quantitatively (Hyman 2011), and has been instrumental in shaping phonological theory in many ways. However, the contributions to current linguistic theory of “grammatical tone’ (GT) – a type of non-concatenative morphology where a morpheme is expressed at least in part by tone and/or tone changes – have been less apparent. In this paper, we take stock of the types of GT patterns attested in the literature and the different theoretical treatments of GT that have been proposed to date. We show that GT is still to a large extent underexplored, and highlight the immense potential of the study of GT for improving our understanding of phonology and its outer limits. This paper serves as an introduction to the high-quality research articles collected in this special issue, which directly address how GT critically informs phonological theory and its current developments.

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Word‑level replacive tonal patterns in mande nominal constructions: On Christopher Green’s binary typology1

Cited by 4 publications

References 10 publications

Tonal head marking in Mande compounds: endpoint neutralization and outliers

Tonal head marking in Mande compounds: endpoint neutralization and outliers

A typological portrait of Mano, Southern Mande

Theoretical approaches to grammatical tone

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