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The segmental and tonal structure of verb inflection in Babanki

Pius W. Akumbu
Larry M. Hyman
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Roland Kiessling

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In this study we provide a comprehensive phonological and morphological analysis of the complex tense-aspect-mood (TAM) system of Babanki, a Grassfields Bantu language of Cameroon. Our emphasis is on the competing inflectional tonal melodies that are assigned to the verb stem. These melodies are determined not only by the multiple past and future tenses, perfective vs. progressive aspect, and indicative vs. imperative, subjunctive, and conditional moods, but also affirmative vs. negative and “conjoint” (CJ) vs. “disjoint” (DJ) verbal marking, which we show to be more thorough going than the better known cases in Eastern and Southern Bantu. The paper concludes with a ranking of the six assigned tonal melodies and fourteen appendices providing all of the relevant tonal paradigms.
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hal-03689210 , version 1 (07-06-2022)

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Pius W. Akumbu, Larry M. Hyman, Roland Kiessling. The segmental and tonal structure of verb inflection in Babanki. Phonological Data and Analysis, 2020, 2 (2), ⟨10.3765/pda.v2art2.32⟩. ⟨hal-03689210⟩

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