Sound mutations : the morphophonology of Chaha / / Degif Petros Banksira

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910971487403321
• Autore: Banksira Degif Petros
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Amsterdam ; ; [Great Britain], : J. Benjamins Pub, 2000
• ISBN: 9786612162732; 9781282162730; 128216273X; 9789027298478; 9027298475
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xiii, 332 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 492.8
• Soggetti: Chaha dialect - Morphophonemics
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: SOUND MUTATIONS -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Résumé -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Phonemes, Syllables, and Stems -- Chapter 2. Geminate Devoicing and Degemination -- Appendix 2a. On the second-radical vocoid in Amharic -- Appendix 2b. On Amharic C1C1C2 verbs -- Chapter 3. On the Distribution of [x] and [k] -- Chapter 4. Sonorant Alternations -- Chapter 5. Initial, Geminate and Post-N Strengthening -- Chapter 6. On the Articulators of Consonants -- Chapter 7. Labialization and Palatalization Triggered by /U/ -- Appendix 7. Some factual errors concerning labialization -- Chapter 8. Subject Affixes -- Chapter 9. Object Clitics -- Appendix 9. kft 'open' conjugated -- Conclusion -- References -- Name Index -- Subject Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: This monograph, which evolved from the first linguistic dissertation to be written on Chaha (an Ethiopian Semitic language), is also the first book to deal exclusively with the phonology and morphology of the language. It is an exhaustive description and analysis, by a native speaker, of the sound patterns of this often misdescribed language and deserves to be the standard reference on the phonology of Chaha. The ; book presents a vast amount of new data and it unearths some fascinating new generalizations about double linking, geminate devoicing, nasalization of liquid consonants, phonotactic constraints within morphemes, and palatalization and labialization triggered by decomposition of a single back high round vowel. The book also challenges the categorization of Semitic subject affixes into prefix and suffix sets, instead proposing a novel classification in which all prefixes and some suffixes form a set that excludes the remaining suffixes. The generalizations and analyses are significant not only for the study of Chaha and Semitic languages, but also for phonological theory in general.