Stress and Tone – The African Experience
Edited by: Rose-Juliet Anyanwu. With contributions by: Rose-Juliet Anyanwu, Lee S. Bickmore, Denis Creissels, Laura J. Downing, Zygmunt Frajzyngier, Leoma Gilley, Larry Hyman, Roland Kießling, Wilhelm J.G. Möhlig †, Robert Nicolaï, Imelda Udoh, Rainer Voßen.
Series: FAB Frankfurt African Studies Bulletin Year 2003, Volume 15
20044 pp. Roman, 200 pp.
numerous tables and charts
Text language(s): English
Format: 160 x 240 mm
340 g
Paperback
€ 39.80
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CONTENTS
Rose-Juliet Anyanwu: Tone and accent in the Igbo verb
Lee S. Bickmore: The use of feet to account for binary tone spreading
Denis Creissels: Some remarks on tonal processes at utterance boundaries
Laura Downing: Stress, tone and focus in Chichewa and Xhosa
Zygmunt Frajzyngier: Tone and vowel deletion, insertion and syllable structure
Leoma Gilley: The feature of stress in Nilotic
Larry Hyman / Imelda Udoh: Tone mapping in Leggbó
Roland Kießling: Tonogenesis in Southern Cushitic (Common West Rift)
Wilhelm J.G. Möhlig: The prosodological structure of Herero
Rainer Voßen: Verbal tone and stress in ||Ani (Central Khoisan)
Book Review · Compte-rendu de publications
Robert Nicolaï: Leçon d’Afrique, filiations, ruptures et reconstitution de langues – un hommage à Gabriel Manessy
(Rose-Juliet Anyanwu)
Under these links you will publications by the contributors, studies of tone systems in African languages and further descriptions of the languages and language families analyzed here:
Accompanying material:
- A Learner’s Chichewa and English Dictionary (N.30)
(ISBN 978-3-927620-10-0 ) - Atlas of Kamba Dialects (Kenya Bantu E.55)
(ISBN 978-3-89645-708-0 ) - Logophoricity, Pronouns, and Pronominals in African Languages
(ISBN 978-3-89645-367-9 ) - Morphophonologie des langues kwa de Côte d’Ivoire
(ISBN 978-3-89645-545-1 ) - Reference Grammar of Yukuben (Jukunoid, Nigeria)
(ISBN 978-3-89645-473-7 ) - Swahili Phonology Reconsidered in a Diachronical Perspective
(ISBN 978-3-927620-38-4 ) - Tense, Aspect, and Mood in Benue-Congo Languages
(ISBN 978-3-89645-470-6 ) - The Bantu Languages of the Kenya Coast
(ISBN 978-3-89645-716-5 ) - Tone Systems in African Languages
(ISBN 978-3-89645-019-7 ) - Transitivity in African Languages
(ISBN 978-3-89645-726-4 )
Cross-reference:
- A Grammatical Sketch of Herero (Otjiherero)
(ISBN 978-3-89645-044-9 ) - Dictionary of Hdi
(ISBN 978-3-89645-299-3 ) - Die Khoe-Sprachen
(ISBN 978-3-927620-59-9 ) - Die Rekonstruktion der südkuschitischen Sprachen (West-Rift)
(ISBN 978-3-89645-066-1 ) - Ein Leben im Dienste der Afrikanistik
(ISBN 978-3-89645-631-1 ) - Eine Grammatik des Burunge
(ISBN 978-3-89645-291-7 ) - Grammatical and Semantic Relations in Hausa
(ISBN 978-3-89645-540-6 ) - Insights into Nilo-Saharan Language, History and Culture
(ISBN 978-3-89645-660-1 ) - Issues in Bantu Tonology
(ISBN 978-3-89645-033-3 ) - Le malinké de Kita
(ISBN 978-3-89645-078-4 ) - Les classes nominales dans les langues atlantiques
(ISBN 978-3-89645-565-9 ) - Reference Grammar of Herero (Otjiherero)
(ISBN 978-3-89645-602-1 ) - The Lexical Reconstruction of West-Rift Southern Cushitic
(ISBN 978-3-89645-068-5 ) - Verbal Serialisation in Isu (West Ring)
(ISBN 978-3-89645-555-0 )
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