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Tone in Yongning Na: Lexical Tones and Morphotonology Alexis Michaud Tone in Yongning Na: lexical tones and morphotonology Alexis Michaud To cite this version: Alexis Michaud. Tone in Yongning Na: lexical tones and morphotonology. Language Science Press, 13, 2017, Studies in Diversity Linguistics, Haspelmath, Martin, 978-3-946234-86-9. 10.5281/zen- odo.439004. halshs-01094049v6 HAL Id: halshs-01094049 https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-01094049v6 Submitted on 26 Apr 2017 HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci- destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents entific research documents, whether they are pub- scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, lished or not. 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À mon père Contents Acknowledgments xiii Abbreviations and conventions xvii For quick reference: Lexical tones and main tone rules xxv 1 Introduction 1 1.1 The Na language ........................... 2 1.1.1 Endonym and exonyms .................. 2 1.1.2 Dialect classification and issues of phylogeny ...... 9 1.1.3 A review of Na language studies ............. 14 1.2 Project and method ......................... 22 1.2.1 The aim: Detailed description of a level-tone system .. 22 1.2.2 Theoretical backdrop .................... 23 1.2.3 Field trips and collaboration with consultants ...... 27 1.2.4 Elicitation methods ..................... 35 1.2.5 Online materials ...................... 38 1.3 A grammatical sketch of Yongning Na ............... 45 1.3.1 Word order ......................... 47 1.3.2 Tense, aspect and modality ................ 48 1.3.3 Question formation ..................... 48 1.3.4 Existential sentences .................... 48 1.3.5 Sentence-final particles ................... 50 1.3.6 Noun and noun phrase ................... 50 1.3.7 Verb and verb phrase .................... 51 2 The lexical tones of nouns 53 2.1 A static inventory of tone patterns ................. 53 2.2 A dynamic view, bringing out the tonal categories ........ 57 2.2.1 Monosyllabic nouns: Six tonal categories ......... 57 2.2.2 Disyllabic nouns: Eleven tonal categories ......... 58 Contents 2.3 Phonological analysis ........................ 59 2.3.1 A floating H tone ...................... 60 2.3.2 Word-final H tone and the ‘flea’ H tone category .... 69 2.3.3 A postlexical rule for all-L tone groups .......... 72 2.3.4 Tonal contours as sequences of level tones ........ 72 2.3.5 An alternative analysis of //LM// and //LH// ....... 73 2.3.6 Cases of neutralization of //LM// and //LH// ....... 76 2.3.7 On the anchoring of tones to word boundaries ..... 77 2.4 General observations about the system .............. 78 2.4.1 Usefulness of an autosegmental approach ........ 78 2.4.2 Recapitulation of the lexical tone categories ....... 79 2.4.3 M as a default tone ..................... 87 2.4.4 The notation of tonal categories in lexical entries .... 88 2.4.5 Attested and unattested lexical tones ........... 90 2.4.6 Phonological regularities and morphotonological oddities 91 3 Compound nouns 93 3.1 Determinative compound nouns. Part I: The main facts ..... 94 3.1.1 The role of the number of syllables ............ 95 3.1.2 How the tone patterns were collected ........... 97 3.1.3 Surface phonological tone patterns ............ 98 3.1.4 Analysis into underlying tone patterns .......... 105 3.2 Determinative compound nouns. Part II: Discussion ....... 113 3.2.1 LM-tone determiners .................... 118 3.2.2 M-tone determiners .................... 119 3.2.3 L-tone determiners ..................... 120 3.2.4 H-tone determiners: #H, H# and H$ ............ 121 3.2.5 MH-tone determiners ................... 122 3.2.6 Determiners carrying LM+MH# tone or LM+#H tone .. 122 3.2.7 Cases of neutralization of tonal oppositions on the head 123 3.2.8 A tendency to avoid long-distance movement of tones . 125 3.2.9 Brief remarks about slips of the tongue .......... 126 3.2.10 Perspectives for comparison across speakers ....... 127 3.2.11 Exceptional items ...................... 129 3.3 Coordinative compounds ...................... 133 3.3.1 The main facts ........................ 133 3.3.2 Discussion: Tonal variability and lexical diversity .... 141 3.3.3 Compound given names and terms of address ...... 144 vi Contents 3.4 Compound nouns containing adjectives .............. 148 3.4.1 A productive construction: N+Adj+relativizer ...... 148 3.4.2 Lexicalized compounds of N+Adj structure ....... 151 3.4.3 N+Adj combinations in the process of lexicalization .. 158 3.4.4 A lexicalized compound of Adj+N structure ....... 160 3.4.5 A lexicalized compound of V+Adj structure ....... 160 3.5 Concluding note ........................... 161 4 Classifiers 163 4.1 Numeral-plus-classifier phrases .................. 164 4.1.1 Elicitation procedures ................... 164 4.1.2 Results: Nine tonal categories for monosyllabic classifiers 167 4.1.3 The tones of classifiers and of corresponding free forms 177 4.1.4 Indirect confirmation for the H, MH, M and L categories 179 4.1.5 Degree of tonal complexity and amount of mistakes .. 180 4.1.6 About variants of tone patterns .............. 181 4.1.7 Disyllabic classifiers .................... 183 4.1.8 Two numerals plus a classifier ............... 183 4.1.9 Conclusions ......................... 185 4.2 Demonstrative-plus-classifier phrases ............... 187 4.3 Tonal interactions with a preceding noun ............. 189 4.4 Concluding note ........................... 192 5 Combinations of nouns with grammatical elements 195 5.1 Derivational affixes: Gender suffixes and kinship prefix ..... 195 5.1.1 Introduction to gender suffixes .............. 195 5.1.2 The facts ........................... 197 5.1.3 Discussion .......................... 205 5.1.4 Other suffixes for ‘male’ .................. 211 5.1.5 The kinship prefix /ə˧-/ ................... 213 5.2 Reduplication ............................ 216 5.2.1 Reduplication of numeral-plus-classifier phrases .... 217 5.2.2 A reduplicated nominal suffix ............... 217 5.3 Possessive constructions containing pronouns .......... 219 5.3.1 The 1st, 2nd and 3rd person pronouns ........... 220 5.3.2 The pronoun ‘oneself’ ................... 224 5.4 Monosyllabic enclitics, suffixes, and postpositions ........ 227 5.4.1 L-tone morphemes ..................... 227 5.4.2 M-tone morphemes ..................... 231 vii Contents 5.4.3 MH-tone morphemes .................... 236 5.4.4 A H-tone morpheme .................... 236 5.5 Disyllabic postpositions ....................... 238 5.6 Adverbs ................................ 240 5.6.1 The homophonous adverbslɑ˧ / / ‘only’
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