Francis Katamba
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 741159 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Francis Katamba |
| PRENOMES | Francis |
| SOBRENOME | Katamba |
| ASSINATURA | KATAMBA F |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Lancaster University Ghana |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 14 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 25 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 12 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1975 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2014 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Frontiers of Phonology
Frontiers of Phonology
Tnology of wh-questions in Luganda
The purpose of this paper is to show how WH questions interact with the complex tonal phenomena which we summarized and illustrated in Hyman & Katamba (2010). As will be seen, WH questions have interesting syntactic and tonal properties of their own, including a WH-specific intonation. The paper is structured as follows: After an introduction in §1, we successively discuss non-subject WH questions (§2), subject WH questions (§3), and clefted WH q…
Tone, syntax, and prosodic domains in Luganda
"The documentation of... descriptive generalizations is sometimes clearer and more accessible when expressed in terms of a detailed formal reconstruction, but only in the rare and happy case that the formalism fits the data so well that the resulting account is clearer and easier to understand than the list of categories of facts that it encodes.... [If not], subsequent scholars must often struggle to decode a description in an out-of-date formal…
Bantu Phonology and Morphology
Frontiers of Phonology
A New Approach to Tone in Luganda
Since McCawley 1970, the Luganda tone system has been well known for its property of allowing at most one H[igh] to L[ow] pitch drop per word. To account for this property, the underlying system has been analyzed both in terms of underlying accents of various kinds (e.g. diacritic) and in terms of underlying tone (e.g. H vs. 0). Most accentual proposals, however, fail to account for the fact that THREE marks are necessary to characterize the high…
Cyclicity and Suffix Doubling in the Bantu Verb Stem
Proceedings of the Seventeenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: Special Session on African Language Structures (1991), pp. 134-144
Final vowel shortening in Luganda
A process by which long vowels are shortened in "final position" has been noted by a number of linguists, e.g. Ashton et al [1954], Tucker [1962], Cole [1967], Stevick [1969], Katamba [1974], Clements [1986]. It is generally assumed that this shortening is characteristic of word-ends such that the process can even serve as a criterion for phonological word division. Despite the attention given to final vowel shortening (FVS), the relevant facts h…
Spurious high-tone extensions in Luganda
A handful of mostly older descriptions of Bantu tone systems note an unexpected H tone effect on verb stems containing a causative -j- or passive -u- extension. Meeussen cites these effects as archaic and reconstructs H tone on these vocalic suffixes in Proto-Bantu. It has been difficult to evaluate this historical claim, since not all Bantu tone systems exhibit what we are calling ‘spurious H-tone extensions’, and still fewer of these have been …
Luganda and the strict layer hypothesis
The ability of a language's syntax to determine the application vs . non-application of postlexical phonological rules has by now been firmly established in a number of languages. Such rules, which apply above the word level, have come especially from the prosodic aspects of phonological structure, e.g. effects of syllabification, stress-accent, duration and tone. Much of the interest in this syntax-phonology interaction has centred around two ge…
A nonlinear analysis of vowel harmony in Luganda
In some languages, vowels occurring in some specified domain, which is usually the word, must share some phonetic property or properties. Such languages are said to have vowel harmony. Luganda, a Bantu language of Uganda, is unusual in having a vowel harmony system which is entirely morphologically conditioned. There is one subsystem which operates in the noun phrase and another irregular subsystem which operates in the verb phrase. The aim of th…
How Agglutinating Is Bantu Morphology
Death and Man in the Earlier Works of Wole Soyinka
Luganda and the strict layer hypothesis
The ability of a language's syntax to determine the application vs . non-application of postlexical phonological rules has by now been firmly established in a number of languages. Such rules, which apply above the word level, have come especially from the prosodic aspects of phonological structure, e.g. effects of syllabification, stress-accent, duration and tone. Much of the interest in this syntax-phonology interaction has centred around two ge…
A New Approach to Tone in Luganda
Since McCawley 1970, the Luganda tone system has been well known for its property of allowing at most one H[igh] to L[ow] pitch drop per word. To account for this property, the underlying system has been analyzed both in terms of underlying accents of various kinds (e.g. diacritic) and in terms of underlying tone (e.g. H vs. 0). Most accentual proposals, however, fail to account for the fact that THREE marks are necessary to characterize the high…
Final vowel shortening in Luganda
A process by which long vowels are shortened in "final position" has been noted by a number of linguists, e.g. Ashton et al [1954], Tucker [1962], Cole [1967], Stevick [1969], Katamba [1974], Clements [1986]. It is generally assumed that this shortening is characteristic of word-ends such that the process can even serve as a criterion for phonological word division. Despite the attention given to final vowel shortening (FVS), the relevant facts h…
How Agglutinating Is Bantu Morphology
Death and Man in the Earlier Works of Wole Soyinka
How Agglutinating Is Bantu Morphology
A nonlinear analysis of vowel harmony in Luganda
In some languages, vowels occurring in some specified domain, which is usually the word, must share some phonetic property or properties. Such languages are said to have vowel harmony. Luganda, a Bantu language of Uganda, is unusual in having a vowel harmony system which is entirely morphologically conditioned. There is one subsystem which operates in the noun phrase and another irregular subsystem which operates in the verb phrase. The aim of th…
Luganda and the strict layer hypothesis
The ability of a language's syntax to determine the application vs . non-application of postlexical phonological rules has by now been firmly established in a number of languages. Such rules, which apply above the word level, have come especially from the prosodic aspects of phonological structure, e.g. effects of syllabification, stress-accent, duration and tone. Much of the interest in this syntax-phonology interaction has centred around two ge…
Final vowel shortening in Luganda
A process by which long vowels are shortened in "final position" has been noted by a number of linguists, e.g. Ashton et al [1954], Tucker [1962], Cole [1967], Stevick [1969], Katamba [1974], Clements [1986]. It is generally assumed that this shortening is characteristic of word-ends such that the process can even serve as a criterion for phonological word division. Despite the attention given to final vowel shortening (FVS), the relevant facts h…
Spurious high-tone extensions in Luganda
A handful of mostly older descriptions of Bantu tone systems note an unexpected H tone effect on verb stems containing a causative -j- or passive -u- extension. Meeussen cites these effects as archaic and reconstructs H tone on these vocalic suffixes in Proto-Bantu. It has been difficult to evaluate this historical claim, since not all Bantu tone systems exhibit what we are calling ‘spurious H-tone extensions’, and still fewer of these have been …
Cyclicity and Suffix Doubling in the Bantu Verb Stem
Proceedings of the Seventeenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: Special Session on African Language Structures (1991), pp. 134-144
A New Approach to Tone in Luganda
Since McCawley 1970, the Luganda tone system has been well known for its property of allowing at most one H[igh] to L[ow] pitch drop per word. To account for this property, the underlying system has been analyzed both in terms of underlying accents of various kinds (e.g. diacritic) and in terms of underlying tone (e.g. H vs. 0). Most accentual proposals, however, fail to account for the fact that THREE marks are necessary to characterize the high…
Frontiers of Phonology
Bantu Phonology and Morphology
Tone, syntax, and prosodic domains in Luganda
"The documentation of... descriptive generalizations is sometimes clearer and more accessible when expressed in terms of a detailed formal reconstruction, but only in the rare and happy case that the formalism fits the data so well that the resulting account is clearer and easier to understand than the list of categories of facts that it encodes.... [If not], subsequent scholars must often struggle to decode a description in an out-of-date formal…
Tnology of wh-questions in Luganda
The purpose of this paper is to show how WH questions interact with the complex tonal phenomena which we summarized and illustrated in Hyman & Katamba (2010). As will be seen, WH questions have interesting syntactic and tonal properties of their own, including a WH-specific intonation. The paper is structured as follows: After an introduction in §1, we successively discuss non-subject WH questions (§2), subject WH questions (§3), and clefted WH q…
Frontiers of Phonology
Frontiers of Phonology
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