Year: 2014
Type: article
Abstract: In this paper I describe the tonal melodies of Lulamogi, a small understudied language of the Luganda-Lusoga cluster. Although Lulamogi has lost lexical contrast on verbs, as in most Bantu languages, it has a rich set of verbal melodies that are assigned on the basis of tense, aspect, mood, polarity and clause type (e. g. main vs. relative). Although focus is on the stem tone melodies, other complications arise from preceding prefixes which may shift their H tone onto the stem initial syllable. Since the system is quite different from that found in well‑known Luganda, it is of particular interest for our understanding of the evolution of the tone systems of this subregion.
Source: Africana Linguistica
Author: Larry M. Hyman
Institution: University of California, Berkeley
Language: English
Subfield: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2767369103