This article presents a typology of consonant harmony or Long Distance Consonant
Agreement that is analyzed as arising through correspondence relations between …

The study of harmony processes, their phonological characteristics and parameters of
typological variation, has played a major role in the development of current phonological …

This paper focusses on deictic directionals and their rarely discussed function as markers of
Associated Motion (henceforth AM). AM is a term generally used to refer to a category of …

This extensive survey of consonant harmony in the world's languages reveals surprising
diversity in the featural dimensions involved, and uncovers new empirical generalizations …

The concern for the fast-disappearing language stocks of the world has arisen particularly in
the past decade, as a result of the impact of globalization. This book appears as an answer …

One of the major attributes of autosegmental phonology is the possibility of reducing
procedural techniques of morphological exponence to a generalised concept of …

Ergativity is not totally absent among the languages of Africa. Ergative characteristics are
thus found in some Western Nilotic languages, eg in Päri. In independent indicative clauses …

In this dissertation, I argue for a theory of long-distance consonant dissimilation based on
Surface Correspondence, correspondence that holds over the different consonants …

A number of ideas in this book have begun to develop just around the beginning of my
fieldwork on Luwo already in 2000, when I began to realise that there are categories and …

Using novel data from Kipsigis (Southern Nilotic; Kenya), we present the first attested case of
across-the-board paradigmatic tonal polarity. The nominative case forms of nominal …