عنوان

Noun classification in Seereer-Siin

شماره

TLpq304028426

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

Noun classification in Seereer-Siin

نام عام مواد

[Thesis]

نام نخستين پديدآور

M. F. Mc Laughlin

نام ساير پديدآوران

A. C. Woodbury

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

The University of Texas at Austin

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

1992

نام خاص و کميت اثر

309

جزئيات پايان نامه و نوع درجه آن

Ph.D.

کسي که مدرک را اعطا کرده

The University of Texas at Austin

امتياز متن

1992

متن يادداشت

This work investigates the categorial system of noun classification in Seereer-Siin, a West Atlantic (Niger-Congo) language spoken in Senegal, West Africa. Based on a original corpus of data collected by the author in Fatick, Senegal, the study is a description and analysis of the morphophonology of Seereer noun classification within the comparative context of two related languages: Wolof, ad the Pulaar dialect of Fula. In addition, the study provides an account of noun classification as a multimodular agreement system. The primary theoretical issues addressed in the work are (1) the nature of phonological representations within the context of underspecification theory, (2) the status of inflection and derivation as real and distinct morphological categories, and (3) the nature of agreement in natural language as a multimodular phenomenon. Phonological evidence for underspecification comes from the facts of Seereer consonant mutation, while evidence for distinct inflectional and derivational morphological categories comes from the behavior of diminutive and augmentative classes in Seereer; the various principles by which a noun and a class are assigned to each other support an autolexical model of the grammar in which the various components exhibit a high degree of autonomy. Most salient among the characteristics of Seereer nominal morphophonology is the complex phenomenon of stem-initial consonant mutation. Within the framework of underspecification theory, consonant mutation is analyzed as the prefixation of a floating autosegment, which is part of the noun class prefix, to a underspecified stem-initial consonant. Moreover, two distinct types of consonant mutation are shown to be operative in Seereer: the first, designated as usd\alphausd-mutation, involves alternations between a voiced stop, a voiceless stop, and a prenasalized stop, while the second, or usd\betausd-mutation, shows alternations between a continuant, a stop, and a prensalized stop. The behavior of noun stems with regard to initial mutation indicates that diminutive and augmentative classes in Seereer are morphologically distinct from other classes, rather than being fully integrated into an inflectional system of class affiliation as has been claimed for Fula. Prenasalization in these stems is analyzed as the result of a derivational affix; the newly derived stems subsequently undergoing inflection. The multimodular account of noun classification argues for at least four independent bases of agreement: semantic, opaque or lexicalized, morphophonological, and default. Consonant mutation, diminutive and augmentative formation, and bases of class assignment in Seereer are compared to similar phenomena in Pulaar and Wolof, resulting in a morphological typology of Northern West Atlantic noun class systems.

موضوع مستند نشده

Fula

موضوع مستند نشده

Language, literature and linguistics

موضوع مستند نشده

Linguistics

موضوع مستند نشده

Senegal

موضوع مستند نشده

Wolof

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

A. C. Woodbury

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

M. F. Mc Laughlin

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Thesis]

کد کاربرگه

276903

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y