The morphology and phonology of the nominal domain in Tagbana. Yranahan Traoré
Functional morphemes
5.4 Agreeing dependent functional morphemes
5.4.1 Pronouns, possessives, and possessive constructions
5.4.4 Demonstratives/relative pronouns
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5.4.5 Deictic particle/clause-ending particles
5.5 Illustration of agreement in dependent morphemes
5.5.1 Agreement in dependent functional morphemes of class 1
5.5.2 Agreement in dependent functional morphemes of class 3
5.5.3 Agreement in dependent functional morphemes of class 5
5.5.4 Agreement in dependent functional morphemes of classes 2, 4, 6 and 7
5.7.1 VI instructions as inputs in an optimality-theoretic analysis
5.7.2 Vowel and nasal harmonies
5.7.4 Nasal harmony (vowel-consonant harmony)
5.8 Discussion and additional comment on nouns
6.3.2 Special cases of deverbal nominalization
6.4.1 Adjectives in their citation form
6.4.2 Agreement in predicative adjectives
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7 Compounding and complex noun formation
7.1 Noun + noun (N+N) compounds
7.1.1 Endocentric and exocentric compounds
7.1.2 N+N compounds with a single CM
7.1.3 N+N compounds with two CM (resulting in a nominal phrase)
7.1.4 N+N compounding and phonological effects
7.2 Noun + verb (N+V) compounds: (Nominalroot + verbalroot) + nominalizer
7.3 Noun + adjective (N+A) compounds
7.3.1.1 Class 1 and 2 nouns + adjective
7.3.1.2 Classes 3 and 4 nouns + adjectives
7.3.1.3 Classes 5 and 6 nouns with adjectives
7.3.1.4 Class 7 nouns compounded with adjectives
7.4 Compounds with more than one adjectival root
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In this book, I investigate the morphology and phonology of the nominal domain in Fròʔò (Tagbana), a Senufo language of Côte d’Ivoire, which has not yet been studied in detail; see Clamens (1957) and Miehe (2012) for Tagbana. The nominal domain is the locus of a phenomenon called ‘alliterative concord’, a special kind of concord expressed by consonantal alliteration. All dependent morphemes of a head noun share articulatory features, which are realized on the onset of the first syllable. They are abstract features signalling the class of the dependent morphemes.
The first aspect elaborated on, after introducing the language in Chapter 1, is the inventory of segments in the language. The theoretical framework in the sound description is the feature geometry