This study combines a descriptive and theoretical presentation of Kɔnni, a Gur language of northern Ghana. It presents an Optimality Theory analysis of the entire phonological system. The descriptions are separated from the formal analyses in order to facilitate use by both descriptivists and theoreticians.Morphology is described, including the noun class system, reduplicative agentive nouns, noun-adjective complexes, nominal derivations, and various verbal aspectual suffixes. Major sections are included on consonants, vowels, and tone. The volume also includes a brief syntax sketch, co occurrence restrictions, phoneme frequency counts, measurements of segment durations and vowel formants, and seven appendices of data. Selected notes of interest:? Some phonology is limited to only certain noun classes.' The 9-vowel ATR vowel system and diphthongization are integrally related.' Certain vowels assimilate only across consonants having the same place feature. ? Tonal perturbations require four different underlying representations for different nouns which have a surface [LH] tone.' True tonal polarity is distinct from dissimilation.' Two cases of syntax-phonology interface are demonstrated.Michael Cahill (Ph.D., linguistics, The Ohio State University, 1999) has been with SIL since 1982, and worked on site with Kɔnni speakers from 1986 to 1993. He was a member of the LSA's Committee on Endangered Languages and their Preservation from 2001-2003, chairing it in 2003. He is an adjunct faculty member of the University of Texas at Arlington and of the Graduate Institute of Applied Linguistics and is currently based in Dallas as the International Linguistics Coordinator of SIL.

This book presents a phenomenon-oriented survey of the interaction between phonology and morphology. It examines the ways in which morphology, i.e. word formation, demonstrates sensitivity to phonological information and how phonological patterns can be sensitive to morphology. Chapters focus on morphologically conditioned phonology, process morphology, prosodic templates, reduplication, infixation, phonology-morphology interleaving effects, prosodic-morphological mismatches, ineffability, and other cases of phonology-morphology interaction. The overview discusses the relevance of a variety of phenomena for theoretical issues in the field. These include the debate over item-based vs. realizational approaches to morphology; the question of whether cyclic effects can be subsumed under paradigmatic effects; whether reduplication is phonological copying or morphological doubling; whether infixation and suppletive allomorphy are phonologically optimizing, and more. The book is intended to be used in graduate or advanced undergraduate courses or as a reference for those pursuing individual topics in the phonology-morphology interface.

An introduction to a little-known Bantu language spoken in Tanzania. This study both broadens our understanding of the structure of African languages and provides data crucial to the resolution of certain questions in contemporary phonological theory.

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Based on fieldwork near Carnarvon, Jul.-Aug. 1967; Brief details of present location, informants, dialects; Phonemics (phoneme inventory, articulation, distribution), morpho-phonemics (morphophoneme inventory, isomorphic & nonisomorphic morphophonemes), word & sentence structure, nouns (pronouns, numerals, substantives, noun stem formatives, case inflection, noun deictic), verbs (5 classes, verb stem formatives, inflections, verb deictric), particles (interjections, coordinators, adverbials), enclitics (temporal, connective).

This book describes the lexical phonology and morphology of the verb stem in Ciyao.

Kuria ist eine östliche Bantu-Sprache und gehört demnach zum Niger-Kongo-Zweig (Guthries Klassifikation E.40). Die Sprecherzahl wird in Kenia und Tansania zusammen auf mehr als 400.000 geschätzt. Die Daten für die vorliegende Studie wurden fast ausschließlich in Kenia, im wesentlichen von Februar bis Oktober 1986 und von Februar bis Mai 1987 gesammelt. Aufgrund der wenigen existierenden Informationen zur Kuria-Dialektologie, wurde das Hauptaugenmerk der Studie auf die Erstellung einer klaren und umfassenden Darstellung des phonologischen und morphologischen Systems gelegt. Dabei wird herausgestellt, daß das Kuria scheinbar weitaus intensiver vom tansanischen als kenianischen Swahili beeinflußt wurde; in Kenia steigt der Einfluss des Swahili und Englischen gleichermaßen. Die geringe Menge an verfügbarer Literatur und der Forschungsstand waren Gründe für die Veröffentlichung dieser Studie. Auch die Tatsache, daß sich das Kuria seit den 1970er Jahren schneller denn je zu verändern scheint, machten die Studie notwendig. Das Werk besteht aus einem Hauptteil zur Kuria-Phonologie und Morphologie und drei Anhängen. Der erste stellt eine aktualisierte, kommentierte Bibliographie der Publikationen zu Kuria-Sprache und Völkern dar. Der zweite beinhaltet eine kurze Liste der Kuria-Literatur, der dritte enthält linguistisch relevante Informationen zum Hauptinformanten. Das Ziel des Buches ist, wesentlich dazu beizutragen, die beträchtliche deskriptive Lücke innerhalb der Subgruppe der östlichen Bantusprachen zu schließen, die Beschreibung des Kuria zu verbessern und eine zuverlässigere Basis für zukünftige Forschungen zu liefern.

Kenyan English: Domains of Use, Forms, and Users' Attitudesfocuses on the unique issues that concern language researchers in Kenya and elsewhere. Edited by Martha M. MichiekaandEvans Gesura Mecha, the collection examines the English language forms and usages to describe the reality of Kenyan English use. The contributors address questions such as: What are the characteristics that distinguish Kenyan English from other national varieties? How is English taught, and what impact does that kind of teaching have on learner proficiency? What is the place of English in mass media, in politics, in the churches, and in multilingual homes? The contributors, all experienced language practitioners based in Kenya or currently conducting language-related research in Kenya, bring fresh perspectives to the topic at hand and give readers a glance into contexts that have not yet been addressed in this way. They highlight the sociolinguistic reality of the English language in present-day Kenya and raise questions that will prompt further research.