Tone in Yongning Na: Lexical tones and morphotonology
Abstract
"Yongning Na, also known as Mosuo, is a Sino-Tibetan language spoken in Southwest China. This book provides a description and analysis of its tone system, progressing from lexical tones towards morphotonology. Tonal changes permeate numerous aspects of the morphosyntax of Yongning Na. They are not the product of a small set of phonological rules, but of a host of rules that are restricted to specific morphosyntactic contexts. Rich morphotonological systems have been reported in this area of Sino-Tibetan, but book-length descriptions remain few. This study of an endangered language contributes to a better understanding of the diversity of prosodic systems in East Asia. The analysis is based on original fieldwork data (made available online), collected over the course of ten years, commencing in 2006."
Keywords
diversity of porsodic systems; lexical tones; morphotonology; sino-tibetian languages; tone system; endangered languages; Intonation (linguistics); Morpheme; Nakhi people; Noun; Phonetics; Phonology; Syllable; Tone (linguistics); VerbDOI
10.5281/zenodo.439004ISBN
9783946234876;9783946234685OCN
1030819733Publisher
Language Science PressPublisher website
https://langsci-press.org/Publication date and place
2017Series
Studies in Diversity Linguisitics, 13Classification
Linguistics