Temne phonology and morphology.

Title: Temne phonology and morphology.
Identifier: AAI9224868
identifier: 9224868
Creator: Yillah, M. Sorie.
Contributor: Adviser: R. M. R. Hall
Date: 1992
Language: English
Publisher: City University of New York.
Subject: Language, Linguistics | Language, Modern
Abstract: Temne is a southern West Atlantic language which is spoken in the Northern Province of Sierra Leone, of which I am a native speaker.;My aim in writing this dissertation was primarily descriptive: to provide a systematic account of the sounds and forms of the language. I have also tried to sketch in brief the syntactic and semantic frames in which the morphological structures are embedded.;Chapter 1 presents a general introduction to the segmental phonology of Temne. Chapter 2 examines the morphophonology of the specifier system of the noun phrase and provides new classification of the singular/plural, definite/indefinite pairings. In Chapter 3, I discuss the pronominal system and in Chapter 4, Numerals, Prepositions, and Adverbials. In Chapter 5, I examine the verbal complex.;Although the dissertation does not contain an explicit tonology chapter, I deal with tone rules throughout whenever they shed light on phonological or morphological process--e.g. the reattachment of the tones of deleted segments. The tone is always marked.
Type: dissertation
Source: PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
degree: Ph.D.