Moraic preservation and equivalence in Gújjolaay Eegimaa perfective reduplication

Reduplication in Persian Language and Literature

The Reduplications are made by repeating part of the base. The repeated part does not make sense and will never be used alone and is just popular in spoken language. In recent times, they have been used in some texts of poetry and prose, in particular, in stories written in vernacular. This research, with a historical approach, and with an analytical-explanatory method, examines the information...

Onsets and non - moraic syllables in German

Onsets and non-moraic syllables in German Caroline Féry, University of Potsdam (March 2000) To appear in: Féry, Caroline & Ruben van de Vijver (eds.) The Syllable in Optimality Theory. Cambridge. CUP. Introduction1 This paper considers the status of non-appendical word-final consonants and proposes an analysis in which they project a nonmoraic semi-syllable (see Cho & King, this volume, for a s...

Morphological alternation and event delimitation in Eegimaa

It is rare for a language to be able to use noun class markers in the nominal domain to categorise entities, and at the same time, use these same linguistic markers to categorise events from the verbal domain. Such a system can be found in Eegimaa and some other related Atlantic languages spoken in the Basse-Casamance area of Southern Senegal, where non-finite verbs and the events they refer to...

Distributed Reduplication

Dschang Syllable Structure and Moraic Aspiration

The syllable structure of Dschang is interesting for a variety of reasons. Most notable is the aspiration which can appear on most consonant types, including voiced stops. I shall argue that aspiration is best viewed as moraic, contributing to the weight of a syllable. An understanding of the syllable structure also gives valuable insights into the phonemic inventory and the distributional asym...