Lexical Phonology and Morphology - Linguistics

This book presents a description of the phonology and morphology of the nominal class system in Fula, a dialect which displays 21 nominal classes. These are identified by suffixes, which can attach to nominal, verbal and adjectival stems. The main objective of this work is to show, through a lexical analysis, that there are only two monomorphemic marker variants, and that the distribution of these variants is predictable.

List of contents

Foreword. Preface. Overview. Acknowledgements. Abbreviations. Introduction. 1. Class Markers in Pulaar 2. The Vowel System 3. Consonants and their Status 4. The Sonority Constraint and Consonant Clusters 5. Syllables, Skeleton and w and y Variants. Conclusion. Bibliography. Lexicon. Pulaar-English Section. English-Pulaar Section

About the author

Carole Paradis

Summary

This book presents a description of the phonology and morphology of the nominal class system in Fula, a dialect which displays 21 nominal classes. These are identified by suffixes, which can attach to nominal, verbal and adjectival stems. The main objective of this work is to show, through a lexical analysis, that there are only two monomorphemic marker variants, and that the distribution of these variants is predictable.

Product details

• Authors: Carole Paradis
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2015
• EAN: 9781138995383
• ISBN: 978-1-138-99538-3
• No. of pages: 332
• Series: Routledge Library Editions: Linguistics; Routledge Library Editions: Linguistics
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics