The Phonology of Chichewa (The Phonology of the World's Languages)
Downing, Laura J., Mtenje, Al
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Hardcover. This book provides thorough descriptive and atheoretical coverage of the full range of phonological phenomena of Chichewa, a Malawian Bantu language. It covers topics such as vowel harmony, nasal place assimilation, postnasal laryngeal alternations, tonal phenomena, prosodic morphology, and the phonology-syntax interface. Series: The Phonology of the World's Languages. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 2HCBBC; CFH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156. .
This book provides thorough descriptive and theory-neutral coverage of the full range of phonological phenomena of Chichewa, a Malawian Bantu language. Bantu languages have played and continue to play an important role as a source of data illustrating core phonological processes such as vowel harmony, nasal place assimilation, postnasal laryngeal alternations, tonal phenomena such as High tone spread and the OCP, prosodic morphology, and the phonology-syntax interface. Chichewa, in particular, has been a key language in the development of theoretical approaches to these phenomena. In this volume, Laura Downing and Al Mtenje examine not only these well-known features of Chichewa ... Read more
This book provides thorough descriptive and theory-neutral coverage of the full range of phonological phenomena of Chichewa, a Malawian Bantu language. Bantu languages have played and continue to play an important role as a source of data illustrating core phonological processes such as vowel harmony, nasal place assimilation, postnasal laryngeal alternations, tonal phenomena such as High tone spread and the OCP, prosodic morphology, and the phonology-syntax interface. Chichewa, in particular, has been a key language in the development of theoretical approaches to these phenomena. In this volume, Laura Downing and Al Mtenje examine not only these well-known features of Chichewa ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
OUP Oxford
Condition
New
Series
The Phonology of the World's Languages
Number of Pages
312
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780198724742
SKU
V9780198724742
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About Downing, Laura J., Mtenje, Al
Laura J. Downing is Professor of African Languages at Gothenburg University, Sweden. Her research interests are in the phonology, prosodic morphology, and phonology-syntax-focus interface in Bantu languages, and she travels regularly to Malawi for fieldwork on two Malawian Bantu languages, Chichewa and CiTumbuka. Her work has been published in journals such as Phonology, Lingua, and the Journal of African Languages ... Read more
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