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Theory and description in African Linguistics
Selected papers from the 47th Annual Conference on African Linguistics
Peter Jenks, Emily Clem, Hannah Sande (editors)

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digital: 978-3-96110-205-1
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softcover: 978-3-96110-206-8

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DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3365789
Published: 20190814

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. 2019. Theory and description in African Linguistics : Selected papers from the 47th Annual Conference on African Linguistics. (Contemporary African Linguistics ). Berlin: Language Science Press.
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address = {Berlin},
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About this book

The papers in this volume were presented at the 47th Annual Conference on African Linguistics at UC Berkeley in 2016. The papers offer new descriptions of African languages and propose novel theoretical analyses of them. The contributions span topics in phonetics, phonology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics and reflect the typological and genetic diversity of languages in Africa. Four papers in the volume examine Areal Features and Linguistic Reconstruction in Africa, and were presented at a special workshop on this topic held alongside the general session of ACAL.

About Peter Jenks

Peter Jenks is an Associate Professor at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a syntactician with a primary focus on crosslinguistic variation and the syntax-semantics interface. He teaches courses on syntax, semantics, typology, and fieldwork. His work examines how the the languages of East and Southeast Asia and Subsaharan Africa inform linguistic theory. Much of his research has focused on Moro, a Kordofanian language spoken in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan.

About Emily Clem

Emily Clem is an Assistant Professor at the University of California, San Diego. Her research focuses on syntax and its interaction with semantics and morphology. This work, which spans topics such as case, binding, switch-reference, and concord, draws primarily on data from her fieldwork on Amahuaca, a Panoan language of Peru, and Tswefap, a Grassfields Bantoid language of Cameroon.

About Hannah Sande

Hannah Sande is an Assistant Professor at Georgetown University in Washington, DC. Her research and teaching focus on phonology, morphology, and language documentation. Her theoretical work on the interaction of morphology and phonology is based primarily on findings from her own documentation of Kru languages in Côte d'Ivoire, and of other African languages.

Chapters


1
A featural analysis of mid and downstepped high tone in Babanki
Pius W. Akumbu
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2
Metrically conditioned vowel length in Dagaare
Arto Anttila, Adams Bodomo
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3
‘Backwards’ sibilant palatalization in a variety of Setswana
Wm. G. Bennett
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4
Liquid realization in Rutooro
Lee Bickmore
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5
Tumbuka prosody
Between tone and stress
Laura Downing
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6
Hybrid falling tones in Limbum
Siri Gjersøe, Jude Nformi, Ludger Paschen
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7
Notes on the morphology of Marka (Af-Ashraaf)
Christopher R. Green, Evan Jones
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8
Implosives in Bantu A80? The case of Gyeli
Nadine Grimm
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9
Downstep and recursive phonological phrases in Bàsàá (Bantu A43)
Fatima Hamlaoui, Emmanuel-Moselly Makasso
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10
Reconsidering tone and melodies in Kikamba
Patrick Jones, Jake Fryer
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11
Acoustic correlates of harmony classes in Somali
Wm. G. Bennett, Christopher R. Green, Wendell Kimper, Kristine Yu
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12
Prosody & the conjoint/disjoint alternation in Tshiven?a
Leland Paul Kusmer
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13
Obstacles for gradual place assimilation
Andrew Lamont
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14
The phonetics and phonology of depressor consonants in Gengbe
Samson Lotven, Kelly Berkson
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15
Factors in the affrication of the ejective alveolar fricative in Tigrinya
Emily Moeng, William Carter
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16
Between tone and stress in Hamar
Sara Petrollino
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17
Verbal gestures in Cameroon
Betsy Pillion, Lenore A. Grenoble, Emmanuel Ngué Um, Sarah Kopper
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18
Contrastive focus particles in Kusaal
Hasiyatu Abubakari
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19
Non-canonical switch-reference in Serer
Viktoria Apel
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20
Upward-oriented complementizer agreement with subjects and objects in Kipsigis
Michael Diercks, Meghana Rao
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21
Serial verb nominalization in Akan
the question of intervening elements
Reginald Akuoko Duah, Obadele Kambon, Clement I. K. Appah
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22
Verb and predicate coordination in Ibibio
Philip T. Duncan, Travis Major, Mfon Udoinyang
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23
On the derivation of Swahili amba relative clauses
Isaac Gould, Tessa Scott
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24
The aorist and the perfect in Mano
Maria Khachaturyan
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25
Nominal quantification in Kipsigis
Meredith Landman
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26
Stem modification in Nuer
Irina Monich, Matthew Baerman
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27
Negation coding in Ga
Yvonne Akwele Amankwaa Ollennu
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28
On the structure of splitting verbs in Yoruba
Alicia Parrish, Cara Feldscher
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29
Animacy is a presupposition in Swahili
Jonathan Pesetsky
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30
Hausa chat jargon
Tristan Purvis
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31
Deriving an object dislocation asymmetry in Luganda
Rodrigo Ranero
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32
A case based account of Bantu IAV-focus
Naga Selvanathan
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33
When Northern Swahili met southern Somali
Derek Nurse
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34
The syntactic diversity of SAuxOV in West Africa
Peter Jenks, Hannah Sande, Nico Baier
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35
Clicks on the fringes of the Kalahari Basin Area
Bonny Sands, Hilde Gunnink
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36
Central vowels in the Kru language family
Lynell Marchese Zogbo
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