Phonological phrases in Xhosa (Southern Bantu)
- This paper investigates how syntax and focus interact in deriving the phonological phrasing of utterances in Xhosa, a Bantu language spoken in South Africa. Although the influence of syntax on phrasing is uncontroversial, a purely syntactic analysis cannot account for all the data reported for Xhosa by Jokweni (1995). Focus influences the phrasing in that it inserts a phonological phrase-boundary after the focused constituent. This generalization can account for the variation found in the phrasing of adverbials. The findings are dealt with in an OT-based framework following Truckenbrodt's work on Chichewa (1995, 1999) which is extended to the phrasing of adjuncts.
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| Author: | Sabine Zerbian |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-309166 |
| URL: | http://www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/192.html |
| ISSN: | 1435-9588 |
| ISSN: | 0947-7055 |
| Parent Title (English): | Papers in phonetics and phonology / editors Susanne Fuchs and Silke Hamann, Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung, Berlin, 2004; ZAS papers in linguistics Vol. 37 |
| Publisher: | Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung |
| Place of publication: | Berlin |
| Document Type: | Part of a Book |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2013/11/14 |
| Year of first Publication: | 2004 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Release Date: | 2013/11/14 |
| GND Keyword: | Intonation <Linguistik>; Optimalitätstheorie; Phonologie; Syntax; Satz; Satzglied; Chewa-Sprache; Xhosa |
| Volume: | 37 |
| Page Number: | 29 |
| First Page: | 71 |
| Last Page: | 99 |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 381257819 |
| Sammlungen: | Linguistik |
| Linguistik-Klassifikation: | Linguistik-Klassifikation: Syntax |
| Linguistik-Klassifikation: Phonetik/Phonologie / Phonetics/Phonology | |
| Zeitschriften / Jahresberichte: | ZAS papers in linguistics : ZASPiL / ZASPiL 37 = Papers in Phonetics and Phonology |
| : | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-306799 |
| Licence (German): |  Deutsches Urheberrecht |
