Causative And Passive High Tone In Bantu: Spurious Or Proto?
| dc.contributor.author | Hyman, Harry | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-03-13T10:33:12Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-03-13T10:33:12Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2022-12-30 | |
| dc.description.abstract | In this study I address Meeussen’s (1967: 92) tentative proposal to reconstruct a H tone on the Proto-Bantu causative *-i and passive *-ʊ suffixes, contrasting with all other Proto-Bantu extensions, which are reconstructed as toneless (Meeussen 1961; 1967). After surveying the phenomenon, I conclude that the causative-passive H (CPH) is almost exclusively limited to certain of the interlacustrine Bantu languages (JD40-60 and JE10-40) and should not be reconstructed. I exemplify the CPH tone effects in several of these languages and consider other cases of H tone extensions outside of the interlacustrine area which I argue to be unrelated. Although still requiring further investigation, I conclude by considering different morphological and phonological scenarios by which the CPH effects might have evolved. | |
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| dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7575825 | |
| dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.60763/africarxiv/317 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://africarxiv.ubuntunet.net/handle/1/357 | |
| dc.subject | High Tone | |
| dc.subject | Bantu | |
| dc.subject | Spurious | |
| dc.subject | Proto | |
| dc.title | Causative And Passive High Tone In Bantu: Spurious Or Proto? |