LINGUIST List 22.4086 Wed Oct 19 2011 Diss: Lang Documentation/Morphology/Phonology: Marlo: 'The Verbal ...' Editor for this issue: Xiyan Wang <xiyanlinguistlist.org> New! Visit LL's Multitree project for over 1000 trees dynamically generated from scholarly hypotheses about language relationships:             http://multitree.linguistlist.org/ To post to LINGUIST, use our convenient web form at http://linguistlist.org/LL/posttolinguist.cfm. Directory         1.     Michael Marlo , The Verbal Tonology of Lumarachi and Lunyala-West: Two dialects of Luluyia (Bantu, J.30, Kenya) Message 1: The Verbal Tonology of Lumarachi and Lunyala-West: Two dialects of Luluyia (Bantu, J.30, Kenya) Date: 17-Oct-2011 From: Michael Marlo <marlommissouri.edu> Subject: The Verbal Tonology of Lumarachi and Lunyala-West: Two dialects of Luluyia (Bantu, J.30, Kenya) E-mail this message to a friend Institution: University of Michigan Program: Department of Linguistics Dissertation Status: Completed Degree Date: 2007 Author: Michael R. Marlo Dissertation Title: The Verbal Tonology of Lumarachi and Lunyala-West: Two dialects of Luluyia (Bantu, J.30, Kenya) Linguistic Field(s): Language Documentation                             Morphology                             Phonology Subject Language(s): Oluluyia (luy) Language Family(ies): Central Narrow Bantu J                             Narrow Bantu Dissertation Director: Andries W. Coetzee David Odden Dissertation Abstract: This dissertation is a study of the verbal tone patterns of Lumarachi and Lunyala—two previously undescribed dialects of Luluyia, a Bantu language of western Kenya and eastern Uganda. On the basis of original data collected by the author primarily in the field, it describes and analyzes the many tonal alternations that are triggered in each dialect by tense-aspect distinctions, as well as the tonal alternations that are triggered by one or two object prefixes, by the lexical distinction between /H/ and /Ø/ roots (in Lumarachi), by the presence of the causative and passive suffixes, and by the presence of a word following the verb. It therefore documents the rich interaction at the phonology-morphology interface between principles governing the realization of tone in these two dialects, while providing fundamental linguistic description of two undescribed dialects of a underdescribed language and contributing generally to the study of Bantu tonology and phonology. Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 19-Oct-2011       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.