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

2004
4 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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