Tone and Inflection : : New Facts and New Perspectives / / ed. by Jean Léo Léonard, Enrique L. Palancar.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2016 Part 1
• MitwirkendeR: Amith, Jonathan D.,; Campbell, Eric,; DiCanio, Christian T.,; Fedden, Sebastian,; Feist, Timothy,; Fulcrand, Julien,; García, Rey Castillo,; Hyman, Larry M.,; Jacques, Guillaume,; Kim, Yuni,; Léonard, Jean Léo,; Palancar, Enrique L.,; Vydrin, Valentin,
• HerausgeberIn: Léonard, Jean Léo,; Palancar, Enrique L.,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] , 296
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (VI, 342 p.)

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 t...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Table of contents
• 1. Tone and inflection: An introduction
• Part 1: Tone and inflection: General questions with a focus on inflectional tonogenesis
• 2. Morphological tonal assignments in conflict: Who wins?
• 3. Tonogenesis and tonal alternations in Khaling
• 4. Tonal inflection in Mian
• 5. Tonal inflection in Mande languages: The cases of Bamana and Dan-Gwɛɛtaa
• Part 2: Tone and inflection: Insights from the Oto-Manguean languages
• 6. A typology of tone and inflection: A view from the Oto-Manguean languages of Mexico
• 7. Tone and inflection in Zenzontepec Chatino
• 8. Tonal inflection and dialectal variation in Mazatec
• 9. Tonal overwriting and inflectional exponence in Amuzgo
• 10. Abstract and concrete tonal classes in Itunyoso Triqui person morphology
• 11. Tracing the emergence of inflectional tone in Cuicatec
• 12. Verbal inflection in Yoloxóchitl Mixtec
• Subject Index
• Language index