A semantic framework for the azoyú tlapanec iterative

Wichmann, Søren

doi:10.1080/03740463.1992.10412281

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“…The verbs 'play' and 'look for' have the HM contour tone on the stem, but we consider them to be a subclass of the H stems, since their behaviors are the same; this is because in monosyllabic stems only the first tone of the syllable is relevant. The verb 'sharpen' has an enclitic =lāP which is an iterative marker (Wichmann 1992). 15 The verb 'look for' has two variant forms in 3PL; one of these variants, ndīPyáā, is the expected regular form, while the other variant, ndīPyāà is irregular (although the low tone on the last mora could be due to the floating low tone associated with the 3PL prefix).…”

Section: No Tone Process Applied: H Stemsmentioning

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A phonological account of Tlapanec (Mè’phàà) tonal alternation

Uchihara

Cano

2019

J. Ling.

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Tlapanec (Mè’phàà) is known for its enigmatic tonal alternation in verb forms according to person and aspect-mode categories, in addition to suppletion and other segmental alternations. In this paper, we argue that the tonal alternations observed in Tlapanec regular agentive verbs can be straightforwardly accounted for by phonology, without resorting to any extreme abstractness: the lexical tones of the prefixes and the verb stems, with underspecification and floating tones, and cross-linguistically common tone processes such as tone spreading and floating tone docking. Such a phonological (or a morpheme-based) approach is contrasted with a word-based approach, where tonal alternations are viewed as inflectional classes. We show that the phonological approach is more adequate than a word-based approach.

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Section: No Tone Process Applied: H Stemsmentioning

confidence: 99%