Publisher: University of Michigan.
Publication date: 2007.
Number of pages: 597.
This dissertation is a study of the verbal tone pattes Lumarachi and Lunyala— two previously undescribed dialects of Luluyia, a Bantu language of weste Kenya and easte Uganda. On the basis of data collected by the author primarily during field research, it describes and analyzes the many tonal alteations that are triggered in each dialect by tense-aspect distinctions, as well as the tonal alteations that are triggered by one or two object prefixes, by the lexical distinction between /H/ and /?/ roots (in Lumarachi), by the presence of the causative and passive suffixes, and by the presence of a word following the verb. It therefore documents the rich interaction at the phonologymorphology interface between principles goveing the realization of tone in these two dialects, while providing fundamental linguistic description of two undescribed dialects of a underdescribed language and contributing generally to the study of Bantu tonology and phonology.
Publication date: 2007.
Number of pages: 597.
This dissertation is a study of the verbal tone pattes Lumarachi and Lunyala— two previously undescribed dialects of Luluyia, a Bantu language of weste Kenya and easte Uganda. On the basis of data collected by the author primarily during field research, it describes and analyzes the many tonal alteations that are triggered in each dialect by tense-aspect distinctions, as well as the tonal alteations that are triggered by one or two object prefixes, by the lexical distinction between /H/ and /?/ roots (in Lumarachi), by the presence of the causative and passive suffixes, and by the presence of a word following the verb. It therefore documents the rich interaction at the phonologymorphology interface between principles goveing the realization of tone in these two dialects, while providing fundamental linguistic description of two undescribed dialects of a underdescribed language and contributing generally to the study of Bantu tonology and phonology.