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| Surface Structure | 1 |
| Syllables | 1 |
| Tone Languages | 1 |
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Download full textStevick, Earl W. – 1968
The morphotonemics of Ganda have been particularly troublesome to linguists trying to describe the tonal structure of Bantu languages. Ganda has three surface tones, and changes in the surface tones parallel changes in grammatical function only part of the time. The author has found that a description of Ganda tones becomes manageable if instead…
Descriptors: Bantu Languages, Deep Structure, Descriptive Linguistics, Ganda
