Tone and affixation in Hausa
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1986
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Studies in African Linguistics
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In terms of their tonal behavior, Hausa affixes can be
divided into two types. Tone integrating affixes (TIA's),
all of which are suffixes, spread their tone(s) over the
stem to which they are attached, overriding lexical stem
tone in the process. Tonal assignment takes place in a
regular right-to-left manner. Tone non-integrating affixes
(TNI's) do not affect stem tone, the tone of resultant
words simply being the sum of the parts. Most inflectional
and derivational suffixes in Hausa, e.g. noun plurals and
verbal grades, are tone integrating. Tone non-integrating
affixes include a few suffixes, e.g. :waa "participial"
and -aa "feminine", and the prefixes ba- "ethnonymic"
and ma- "agential/instrumental/locational". Stems in
Hausa typically drop their final vowel when a TIA is added;
with most, but not all, TNI's, the stem-final vowel is retained.
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Hausa, Linguistics, African Languages, Tone
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Newman, Paul. 1986. Tone and affixation in Hausa. Studies in African Linguistics 17(3): 249-267.
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