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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Bickmore, Lee, 1961- Cilungu phonology. Stanford, Calif. : CSLI Publications/Center for the Study of Language and Information, ©2007 (OCoLC)608681139 |
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Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Lee Bickmore |
ISBN: | 9781575865508 1575865505 |
OCLC Number: | 165081928 |
Description: | xvi, 537 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
Contents: | 1. Introduction -- 2. Morphology -- 3. Phonology of segments and syllables -- 4. Imbrication -- 5. Tense/aspect/mood system and its tonology -- 6. Tonology of verbal infinitives -- 7. Tonology of nouns -- 8. Compound verbs -- 9. Phrasal tonology -- 10. Summary of prosodic and tonal processes. |
Series Title: | Stanford monographs in African languages. |
Responsibility: | Lee Bickmore. |
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Abstract:
Cilungu is an underrepresented language spoken in northern Zambia and Tanzania whose future is far from certain, given ongoing urbanization and the ascendancy of other regional languages. This book presents a comprehensive description and analysis of this endangered language. It also includes a discussion of morphology, both nominal and verbal.
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