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Pluralization, feminization and pitch accent in Djibouti Somali nouns
In: ISSN: 0167-6164 ; EISSN: 1613-3811 ; Journal of African Languages and Linguistics ; https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-01525564 ; Journal of African Languages and Linguistics, De Gruyter, 2017, 38 (1), pp.89. ⟨10.1515/jall-2017-0004⟩ (2017)
Abstract: International audience ; The goal of this paper is to present newly collected data of Djibouti Somali and show how it offers insight into the architecture of nouns. Djibouti Somali, like Standard Somali, is characterized by the presence of inflectional classes. Building on my own fieldwork material, I discuss both the empirical statements and the theoretical implications that emerge from the observation of three aspects of noun inflection: (1) pluralization strategies, (2) the position of pitch accent with respect to gender and (3) the opposition between Absolutive and Nominative case. In particular, the fact that Djibouti Somali uses mainly two suffixes to pluralize nouns, leads us to the hypothesis that the inflectional system of this variety consists of only two inflectional types. Basic non-derived nouns belong to what I call type A, whereas suffixed nouns belong to type B. This dichotomy is confirmed by the behavior of pitch accent with respect to both gender and syntactic case. Finally, I propose that the distinction between type A and type B can be accounted for, in the context of a formal analysis, by postulating the existence of a contrast between null vs. overt nominalizer.
Keyword: [SHS.LANGUE]Humanities and Social Sciences/Linguistics; Cushitic; femi- nine marker; noun inflection; pitch-accent; pluralization; Somali
URL: https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-01525564/document
https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-01525564/file/Djibouti_somali.pdf
https://doi.org/10.1515/jall-2017-0004
https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-01525564
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The decomposition of Somali Nouns
In: ISSN: 1876-6633 ; Brill's Journal of Afroasiatic Languages and Linguistics ; https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-00743540 ; Brill's Journal of Afroasiatic Languages and Linguistics, Brill, 2013, 5 (1), pp.117-158 (2013)
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