The morphology and phonology of the nominal domain in Tagbana

The book investigates the morphology and phonology of the nominal domain in Tagbana of the Senufo group of Côte d'Ivoire. The nominal domain is the locus of a phenomenon called 'alliterative concord', a special kind of concord expressed by consonantal alliteration. All dependent morphemes of a head noun share articulatory features.

Autorentext

Yranahan Traoré started his university education at the University Félix Houphouët Boigny of Abidjan in Côte d'Ivoire, where he did a master's degree and a D.E.A. 'Diplôme d ìEtudes Approfondies' in Linguistics. In 2015, he started a doctoral research position in the Research Training Group "Nominal Modification" at the Goethe University, Frankfurt a.M. / Germany, where he did a PhD in Linguistics in 2018. His main interest in the field of Linguistics lies in the interaction between phonology and morphology both from an empirical and a theoretical point of view in understudied languages.

Inhalt

1 Introduction

2 The sounds of Fròò

3 Syllable structure and syllabification

4 Nominal classes and the concord system in Fròò

5 Agreeing/concording morphemes and alliterative concord

6 Nominal derivation in Fròò

7 Compounding and complex noun formation