Nominal Classes and Phonological Agreement Sample Contracts

NOMINAL CLASSES AND PHONOLOGICAL AGREEMENT IN TAGBANA*

Nominal Classes and Phonological Agreement • April 5th, 2023

• Contract Type
  Nominal Classes and Phonological Agreement
• Filed
  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 • July 6th, 2018

• Contract Type
  Nominal Classes and Phonological Agreement
• Filed
  July 6th, 2018

In addition to total vowel harmony and nasal harmony, Tagbana, a Senufo language spoken in Côte d’Ivoire, and more especially the dialect called FròPò, 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