[PDF] A Preliminary Phonology Of The Konni Language eBook

Author : Paul A. Kotey
Publisher : Africa World Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 40,90 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780865436657

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Presents the papers delivered during the Plenary Sessions at the 27th Annual Conference on African Linguistics. Contents cover issues relating to phonology, syntax, historical linguistics, and language and society, as well as pedagogical issues that relate to the learning and teaching of African languages.

Author : Moira Jean Winsland Yip
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 10,78 MB
Release : 2002-08-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780521774451

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This comprehensive textbook provides a clearly organized introduction to tone and tonal phonology.

Author : Franz Kröger
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 13,61 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 3643105436

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Although the Koma are known throughout the world as a result of the so-called Komaland-terracottas, excavated in the 1980s, no extensive ethnographic publication about their culture has appeared yet. The present book comprises some of the results of author Franz Kroger's surveys during six field research trips between 1984 and 2008. It is also based on the profound knowledge of the co-author, Ben Baluri Saibu, a lawyer from the Koma village of Yikpabongo. The main focus of the book is the social, political and economic structure of the Koma, as well as their material culture, and, above all, their traditional religion and the extraordinarily dynamic history. A Konni-English word list with approximately 2400 entries might be interesting for linguists specialised in the West African Gur languages.

Author : Akinbiyi Akinlabi
Publisher : Africa World Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 45,75 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780865434639

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The first of a new series devoted to the study of African linguistics, this study presents papers on a wide range of disciplines pertinent to the field that will be of interest to students and researchers. This first volume includes work on Niger Congo languages such as Yoruba and Igbo, and several Bantu languages.

Author : Michael Cahill
Publisher : Sil International, Global Publishing
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 29,37 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN :

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This study combines a descriptive and theoretical presentation of Kɔnni, a Gur language of northern Ghana. It presents an Optimality Theory analysis of the entire phonological system. The descriptions are separated from the formal analyses in order to facilitate use by both descriptivists and theoreticians.Morphology is described, including the noun class system, reduplicative agentive nouns, noun-adjective complexes, nominal derivations, and various verbal aspectual suffixes. Major sections are included on consonants, vowels, and tone. The volume also includes a brief syntax sketch, co occurrence restrictions, phoneme frequency counts, measurements of segment durations and vowel formants, and seven appendices of data. Selected notes of interest:? Some phonology is limited to only certain noun classes.' The 9-vowel ATR vowel system and diphthongization are integrally related.' Certain vowels assimilate only across consonants having the same place feature. ? Tonal perturbations require four different underlying representations for different nouns which have a surface [LH] tone.' True tonal polarity is distinct from dissimilation.' Two cases of syntax-phonology interface are demonstrated.Michael Cahill (Ph.D., linguistics, The Ohio State University, 1999) has been with SIL since 1982, and worked on site with Kɔnni speakers from 1986 to 1993. He was a member of the LSA's Committee on Endangered Languages and their Preservation from 2001-2003, chairing it in 2003. He is an adjunct faculty member of the University of Texas at Arlington and of the Graduate Institute of Applied Linguistics and is currently based in Dallas as the International Linguistics Coordinator of SIL.