Mwani verb tone
Authors
Devos, M.
Calawia, S.
Discipline
Languages and Literature
Subject
Culture & Society
Audience
Scientific
Date
2017Metadata
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This paper describes the verb tone system of Mwani as spoken on Ibo island, Mozambique. It shows that tone is not lexically distinctive with verbs. Instead one of three melodic patterns is assigned based on inflectional criteria. The melodic H tones interact with underlying H tones of subject prefixes and macro-stem initial prefixes (i.e., object prefixes or the distal marker -ka-) but not with other prefixal H tones.
Citation
Devos, M.; Calawia, S. (2017). Mwani verb tone. , Africana Linguistica, Vol. 23, 167-214,Identifiers
Type
Article
Peer-Review
Yes
Language
eng