This paper presents data bearing on two key issues in morphophonological theory: 1) the domain of phonological evaluation, and 2) the item-versus process-morphology debate. I …
M Konoshenko, D Shavarina - Journal of African languages and …, 2019 - degruyter.com
This paper provides an overview of noun class systems in a sample of 20 Kwa languages. It focuses on the synchronic productivity of noun classification in Kwa as opposed to the full …
H Sande - Journal of Linguistics, 2019 - cambridge.org
This paper brings novel data to bear on whether nominal concord relationships are formed in the narrow syntax or post-syntactically. In Guébie, a Kru language spoken in Côte d'Ivoire …
The present study focuses on the phenomenon of noun class and agreement systems in Chichewa, a Bantu language spoken in some parts of Eastern and Southern Africa. Noun …
Most current models of grammar assume that syntax has no sensitivity to phonological information (Pullum and Zwicky, 1986, 1988). Phonologically determined agreement, also …
While a number of phonologists assume that phonotactics can provide clues to abstract morphological information, this possibility has largely gone unconsidered in work on Bantu …