By Enrique L. Palancar,Jean Léo Léonard
Tone is ready melody and that means, inflection is ready grammar, and this booklet is ready a little either. The contributions to this quantity research attainable and occasionally advanced ways that the tones of a language have interaction within the expression of grammatical different types. there's a common perception that tone is a lexical phenomenon in basic terms. this is often in part a outcome of the most curiosity in tone coming from phonology, whereas the most curiosity in inflection has stemmed from segmental morphology. equally, textbooks on inflection and textbooks on tone supply only a few examples of the inflectional use of tone, and such examples are usually an identical ones or too comparable.
This quantity goals to develop our figuring out of the hyperlink among tone and inflection by way of displaying that there's extra to tone than meets the attention. The publication contains basic chapters in addition to case reports on lesser identified languages of Asia, Africa and Papua New Guinea, with a distinct concentrate on the Oto-Manguean languages, a wide and various linguistic inventory of Mexico that encouraged Kenneth Pike’s 1948 seminal paintings on tone. lots of the contributions to this quantity offer first-hand info from fresh fieldwork that stems from vital language documentation activities.
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