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edited by Masangu Matondo, Fiona Mc Laughlin, and Eric Potsdam
ISBN 978-1-57473-429-4 library binding
vi+241 pages
publication date: 2009
published by Cascadilla Proceedings Project, Somerville, MA, USA
Contents
Acknowledgments
Masangu Matondo, Fiona Mc Laughlin, and Eric Potsdam
v-vi (abstract or complete pdf)
Phonology
Optimality Theory and African Language Phonology
Laura J. Downing
1-16 (abstract or complete pdf)
Konni Vowel Feature Spread across Consonants
Michael Cahill
17-25 (abstract or complete pdf)
H Tone, Depressors and Downstep in Tsonga
Seunghun J. Lee
26-37 (abstract or complete pdf)
Vowel Processes in Nguni: Resolving the Problem of Unacceptable VV Sequences
Galen Sibanda
38-55 (abstract or complete pdf)
Morphology
Prosodic Morphology in Dagaare
Arto Anttila and Adams Bodomo
56-68 (abstract or complete pdf)
Inflectional vs. Derivational Morphology in Tagdal: A Mixed Language
Carlos M. Benítez-Torres
69-83 (abstract or complete pdf)
On the Identification of Noun Class and Gender Systems in Chakali
Jonathan Allen Brindle
84-94 (abstract or complete pdf)
Does Logba Have an Adjective Class?
Kofi Dorvlo
95-105 (abstract or complete pdf)
Moro Noun Class Morphology
George Gibbard, Hannah Rohde, and Sharon Rose
106-117 (abstract or complete pdf)
The Morphology of Adverbial Clauses in Sheko
Anne-Christie Hellenthal
118-127 (abstract or complete pdf)
Defining the Word in Kol
Bonnie J. Henson
128-140 (abstract or complete pdf)
Suffix Ordering in Temne: A Case for Morphotactics
Sullay Mohamed Kanu
141-150 (abstract or complete pdf)
Maa (Maasai) Nominalization: Animacy, Agentivity and Instrument
Doris L. Payne and Derek Olsen
151-165 (abstract or complete pdf)
Syntax and Pragmatics
Evaluating the Immediate Postverbal Position as a Focus Position in Zulu
Leston Buell
166-172 (abstract or complete pdf)
Anti-Agreement and [Person] in Bantu
Brent Henderson
173-181 (abstract or complete pdf)
How Many Focus Markers Are There in Konkomba?
Anne Schwarz
182-192 (abstract or complete pdf)
Language Description, Endangerment, and Documentation
Language Documentation as a Strategy for the Empowerment of the Minority Languages of Africa
Herman M. Batibo
193-203 (abstract or complete pdf)
Notes on Lower Jubba Maay
Jade Comfort and Mary Paster
204-216 (abstract or complete pdf)
Plant Names in the Tanzanian Bantu Language Vidunda: Structure and (Some) Etymology
Karsten Legère
217-228 (abstract or complete pdf)
The Situation of Ndengeleko: A Coastal Tanzanian Language (P10)
Eva-Marie Ström
229-241 (abstract or complete pdf)