Tonogenesis in Southeastern Monguor.
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Arienne Dwyer
Abstract
As the result of language contact in the northern Tibetan region, one variety of the Mongolic language Monguor (ISO 639-3: MJG) realizes prosodic accent as a rising pitch contour. Furthermore, a small number of homophones have come to be distinguished by tonal contour. Although at least two Turkic and Mongolic languages have occasionally copied the most salient tonal features of some Chinese loanwords, this is the first known example of both distinctive pitch contrasts in native lexemes, as well as default prosodic accent at the utterance level. Such an incipient tonal system offers insight into the relationship between often-contested types of prosodic accent as well as the effects of intensive language contact.
Abstract
As the result of language contact in the northern Tibetan region, one variety of the Mongolic language Monguor (ISO 639-3: MJG) realizes prosodic accent as a rising pitch contour. Furthermore, a small number of homophones have come to be distinguished by tonal contour. Although at least two Turkic and Mongolic languages have occasionally copied the most salient tonal features of some Chinese loanwords, this is the first known example of both distinctive pitch contrasts in native lexemes, as well as default prosodic accent at the utterance level. Such an incipient tonal system offers insight into the relationship between often-contested types of prosodic accent as well as the effects of intensive language contact.
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- A world of many voices: Editors' introduction 1
- Sri Lanka Malay revisited: Genesis and classification 13
- Working Together: The interface between researchers and the native people - The Trumai case 43
- Tense, Aspect and Mood in Awetí verb-paradigms: Analytic and synthetic forms. 67
- Tonogenesis in Southeastern Monguor. 111
- Language, ritual and historical reconstruction: Towards a linguistic, ethnographical and archaeological account of Upper Xingu Society 129
- Endangered Caucasian languages in Georgia: Linguistic parameters of language endangerment 159
- Contact, attrition and shift in two Chaco languages: The cases of Tapiete and Vilela 195
- Tofa language change and terminal generation speakers 243
- Hocank's challenge to morphological theory 271
- A Preliminary study of same-turn self-repair initiation in Wichita conversation 317
- Multimedia analysis in documentation projects: Kinship, interrogatives and reciprocals in ǂ Akhoe Hai ǁ om 355
- Index 371
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- A world of many voices: Editors' introduction 1
- Sri Lanka Malay revisited: Genesis and classification 13
- Working Together: The interface between researchers and the native people - The Trumai case 43
- Tense, Aspect and Mood in Awetí verb-paradigms: Analytic and synthetic forms. 67
- Tonogenesis in Southeastern Monguor. 111
- Language, ritual and historical reconstruction: Towards a linguistic, ethnographical and archaeological account of Upper Xingu Society 129
- Endangered Caucasian languages in Georgia: Linguistic parameters of language endangerment 159
- Contact, attrition and shift in two Chaco languages: The cases of Tapiete and Vilela 195
- Tofa language change and terminal generation speakers 243
- Hocank's challenge to morphological theory 271
- A Preliminary study of same-turn self-repair initiation in Wichita conversation 317
- Multimedia analysis in documentation projects: Kinship, interrogatives and reciprocals in ǂ Akhoe Hai ǁ om 355
- Index 371
