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- Title
Phonological and morphological domains in Kyirong Tibetan.
- Authors
Hall, T. A; Hildebrandt, Kristine A
- Abstract
A number of phonological generalizations in the Kyirong dialect of Tibetan are argued to require reference to rules or constraints referring to the syllable or the phonological word (pword). The latter domain is significant because it requires three distinct representations for suffix-stem combinations, depending on the particular suffix involved: (a) the stem and suffix form one pword, (b) the suffix lies outside of the pword of the stem and is attached to a higher prosodic constituent, and (c) the stem and suffix are separate pwords. In addition, one phonological process will be argued to operate at the left edge of a morphological domain, i.e., the stem. While the parsings in (a)(c) above are attested in many other the languages of the world, Kyirong Tibetan is unusual typologically because all but one of the stem plus suffix combinations is either (b) or (c). By contrast, in many other languages stem plus suffix sequences are typically represented as in (a). Kyirong Tibetan will also be argued to be unusual typologically because it treats both parts of compounds as single pwords and not as two separate pwords, which is probably the crosslinguistic default option.
- Subjects
NEPAL; KYIRONG dialect; SUFFIXES &; prefixes (Grammar); PHONOLOGY; TIBETAN language; APPLIED linguistics
- Publication
Linguistics, 2008, Vol 46, Issue 2, p215
- ISSN
0024-3949
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/LING.2008.010