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NOMINAL CLASSES AND PHONOLOGICAL AGREEMENT IN TAGBANA*Nominal Classes and Phonological Agreement • April 5th, 2023
In the case of a demonstrative/relative pronoun, the vowel is [a]. The other specifications are similar to those for the pronoun; see (34)a. And the class information remains the same. The result is again a fully specified syllable: ka.
NOMINAL CLASSES AND PHONOLOGICAL AGREEMENT IN TAGBANA*Nominal Classes and Phonological Agreement • February 2nd, 2021
In the case of a demonstrative/relative pronoun, the vowel is [a]. The other specifications are similar to those for the pronoun; see (34)a. And the class information remains the same. The result is again a fully specified syllable: ka.
Nominal classes and phonological agreement in Fròʔò (Tagbana)1 Yranahan Traoré and Caroline Féry, University of Frankfurt, 2018 yranahan.traore@gmail.com, caroline.fery@gmail.comNominal Classes and Phonological Agreement • September 10th, 2020
Besides total vowel harmony and nasal harmony, Fròʔò, a Gur language spoken in Côte d’Ivoire, has a pervasive consonantal agreement in its nominal domain: the morphologically ‘dependent morphemes’ (in terms of concord, Corbett 1991) or ‘associate morphemes’ (Hockett 1958), of nominal heads, agree in their articulator and [±continuant] features, a special case of alliterative concord, because the head noun is playing no role in the alliteration. Besides the consonantal agreement features, these free associate morphemes have their own vocalic features and their own [±voice] feature. The paper starts with a review of nominal classes in Fròʔò and the morphological structure of simple nouns. It is proposed that Fròʔò has a partly non-concatenative morphology and that a standard Distributed Morphology analysis cannot fully account for the phonology of the resulting morphemes. In the second part, the role of phonology is investigated. It is proposed that well-formed morphemes are the result o
