The morphology and phonology of the nominal domain in Tagbana. Yranahan Traoré

Functional morphemes

       5.4 Agreeing dependent functional morphemes

       5.4.1 Pronouns, possessives, and possessive constructions

       5.4.2 Interrogatives

       5.4.3 Indefinite article

       5.4.4 Demonstratives/relative pronouns

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       5.4.5 Deictic particle/clause-ending particles

       5.4.6 Presentative

       5.5 Illustration of agreement in dependent morphemes

       5.5.1 Agreement in dependent functional morphemes of class 1

       5.5.2 Agreement in dependent functional morphemes of class 3

       5.5.3 Agreement in dependent functional morphemes of class 5

       5.5.4 Agreement in dependent functional morphemes of classes 2, 4, 6 and 7

       5.6 Morphosyntax and VI

       5.7 The role of phonology

       5.7.1 VI instructions as inputs in an optimality-theoretic analysis

       5.7.2 Vowel and nasal harmonies

       5.7.3 Total vowel harmony

       5.7.4 Nasal harmony (vowel-consonant harmony)

       5.7.5 Epenthetic [ʔ]

       5.8 Discussion and additional comment on nouns

       5.9 Conclusion

       6 Nominal derivation in Fròʔò

       6.1 Inflection and derivation

       6.2 Denominal derivation

       6.3 Deverbal nouns

       6.3.1 Verbal root plus a CM

       6.3.2 Special cases of deverbal nominalization

       6.4 Deadjectival nouns

       6.4.1 Adjectives in their citation form

       6.4.2 Agreement in predicative adjectives

       6.5 Conclusion

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       7 Compounding and complex noun formation

       7.1 Noun + noun (N+N) compounds

       7.1.1 Endocentric and exocentric compounds

       7.1.2 N+N compounds with a single CM

       7.1.3 N+N compounds with two CM (resulting in a nominal phrase)

       7.1.4 N+N compounding and phonological effects

       7.1.5 N+N+N compounding

       7.2 Noun + verb (N+V) compounds: (Nominalroot + verbalroot) + nominalizer

       7.3 Noun + adjective (N+A) compounds

       7.3.1 Attributive adjectives

       7.3.1.1 Class 1 and 2 nouns + adjective

       7.3.1.2 Classes 3 and 4 nouns + adjectives

       7.3.1.3 Classes 5 and 6 nouns with adjectives

       7.3.1.4 Class 7 nouns compounded with adjectives

       7.3.2 Adjective plè ‘small’

       7.4 Compounds with more than one adjectival root

       7.5 Conclusion

       8 Summary and conclusion

       Appendix

       List of Figures

       List of Tables

       References

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Abstract

      In this book, I investigate the morphology and phonology of the nominal domain in Fròʔò (Tagbana), a Senufo language of Côte d’Ivoire, which has not yet been studied in detail; see Clamens (1957) and Miehe (2012) for Tagbana. 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, which are realized on the onset of the first syllable. They are abstract features signalling the class of the dependent morphemes.

      The first aspect elaborated on, after introducing the language in Chapter 1, is the inventory of segments in the language. The theoretical framework in the sound description is the feature geometry