| Description |
1 online resource (xxxi, 332 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-317) and indexes. |
| Contents |
SOUND MUTATIONS; Editorial page; Title page; LCC page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of Tables; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Résumé; Abstract; Introduction; Chapter 1. Phonemes, Syllables, and Stems; Chapter 2. Geminate Devoicing and Degemination; Chapter 3. On the Distribution of [x] and [k]; Chapter 4. Sonorant Alternations; Chapter 5. Initial, Geminate and Post-N Strengthening; Chapter 6. On the Articulators of Consonants; Chapter 7. Labialization and Palatalization Triggered by /U/; Chapter 8. Subject Affixes; Chapter 9. Object Clitics; Conclusion; References; Name Index. |
| Summary |
This monograph, which evolved from the first linguistic dissertation to be written on Chaha (an Ethiopian Semitic language), is also the first book to deal exclusively with the phonology and morphology of the language. It is an exhaustive description and analysis, by a native speaker, of the sound patterns of this often misdescribed language and deserves to be the standard reference on the phonology of Chaha. The book presents a vast amount of new data and it unearths some fascinating new generalizations about double linking, geminate devoicing, nasalization of liquid consonants, phonotactic c. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Chaha dialect -- Morphophonemics.
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Chaha dialect. |
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Morphophonemics. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Banksira, Degif Petros. Sound mutations. Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2000 1556198590 9781556198595 (DLC) 00023619 (OCoLC)43798258 |
| ISBN |
9789027298478 (electronic book) |
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9027298475 (electronic book) |
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1556198590 (alkaline paper) |
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9781556198595 (alkaline paper) |
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