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Tone and Inflection: New Facts and New Perspectives

Tone and Inflection: New Facts and New Perspectives

Palancar, Enrique L.
Léonard, Jean Léo

Hardcover

Series: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [Tilsm], Book 296

Indigenous Languages of the AmericasLinguistics

ISBN10: 311045002X
ISBN13: 9783110450026
Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton
Published: Mar 7 2016
Pages: 348
Weight: 1.57
Height: 0.94 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Tone is about melody and meaning, inflection is about grammar, and this book is about a bit of both. The contributions to this volume study possible and sometimes complex ways in which the tones of a language engage in the expression of grammatical categories. There is a widespread conception that tone is a lexical phenomenon only. This is partly a consequence of the main interest in tone coming from phonology, while the main interest in inflection has stemmed from segmental morphology. Similarly, textbooks on inflection and textbooks on tone give very few examples of the inflectional use of tone, and such examples are often the same ones or too similar.

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