Vowel harmony in Yamba

dc.contributor.authorScruggs, Terri R
dc.date.accessioned2016-06-13T20:34:18Z
dc.date.available2016-06-13T20:34:18Z
dc.date.issued1980-05
dc.description.abstractTraditionally, when one speaks of Vowel Harmony, one thinks of, for example, Hungarian or Turkish. In such 'traditional' languages, all suffixes harmonize to the root of the word; that is, the vowels of one morpheme are more important than those of the other morphemes and they affect one (or all) of the features of all the other vowels in the word. But in Yamba, the process is somewhat different. Two clitics, one that occurs in noun phrases and one in verb phrases, undergo harmony based on the stem vowel of the head of the phrase. No other clitics or affixes follow this pattern of harmony.en_US
dc.description.refereedYesen_US
dc.identifier.citationScruggs, T. R. (1980). Vowel harmony in Yamba. Calgary Working Papers in Linguistics, 6(Spring), 41-50.en_US
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/29019
dc.identifier.issn2371-2643
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1880/51285
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Calgaryen_US
dc.publisher.departmentLinguisticsen_US
dc.publisher.facultyArts
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Calgaryen_US
dc.subjectLinguisticsen_US
dc.subjectYamba language (Cameroon and Nigeria)en_US
dc.subjectGrammar, Comparative and general--Vowel harmonyen_US
dc.titleVowel harmony in Yambaen_US
dc.typejournal article
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