Noon vowel harmony

Author(s):
Wane, M.H.; Mous, M.P.G.M. (0000-0001-5867-5180)
Published
2020
Publication type
Article / Letter to editor

Abstract

Noon vowel harmony shows the remarkable property of invariance in the affixes while exposing ATR variation in roots only. We show that the ATR harmony is no longer active and that the variation in stems due to dominant suffixes is best analysed as lexical stem variants for different derivational suffixes. This is shown to be the relict of an erstwhile fuller vowel harmony system.

Vowel HarmonyNoonSenegal
Date issued
2020
Language
English
Is part of
Journal of West African Languages (2020), Vol. 47, no. 2, p. 85-97
hdl
1887/3201041
URL
https://main.journalofwestafricanlanguages.org/index.php/downloads/summary/139-volume-47-number-2/742-noon-vowel-harmony