Grammaticalization in Somali and the development of morphological tone
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https://doi.org/10.3765/plsa.v6i1.4993Keywords:
Somali, grammaticalization, univerbation, morphological tone, prosodic typologyAbstract
We demonstrate how grammaticalization may cause the restructuring of prosodic systems, leading to the development of new prosodic types. Illustrated with data from Northern Somali and related varieties, we show how a restricted tone system has developed into one of morphological tone through grammaticalization of independent words to bound forms. Diachronic change has weakened the “accentual” properties of the High tone in Somali, and the tone patterns are synchronically best analyzed as properties of morphological constructions rather than of prosodic domains.
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2021-03-20
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Kaldhol, Nina Hagen, and Sverre Stausland Johnsen. 2021. “Grammaticalization in Somali and the Development of Morphological Tone”. Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America 6 (1): 587–599. https://doi.org/10.3765/plsa.v6i1.4993.