0
Your cart

Your cart is empty

Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Grammar, syntax, linguistic structure

Buy Now

Tone and Accent in Oklahoma Cherokee (Hardcover) Loot Price: R3,354
Discovery Miles 33 540
Tone and Accent in Oklahoma Cherokee (Hardcover): Hiroto Uchihara

Tone and Accent in Oklahoma Cherokee (Hardcover)

Hiroto Uchihara

Series: Oxford Studies of Endangered Languages, 3

 (sign in to rate)
Loot Price R3,354 Discovery Miles 33 540 | Repayment Terms: R314 pm x 12*

Bookmark and Share

Expected to ship within 12 - 19 working days

This book examines the tone and accent of Oklahoma Cherokee, in which six possible pitch patterns can occur on a syllable: low, high, low-high, high-low, lowfall, and superhigh. It provides a comprehensive description and analysis of these patterns, examining their distribution, their source, the principles that determine their positions, and the nature of tonal alternations. The tone and accent of Oklahoma Cherokee displays some typologically unusual features, such as the glottal stop as the historical source for both high and lowfall tones, the coexistence of tonal and accentual systems, the existence of multiple accentual systems, and the morphosyntactic use of accents. Studies on tones in general have focused mainly on analytical languages or languages with little morphology, but Cherokee is unique in that it is polysynthetic at the same time as tonal. The emergence of tones in Oklahoma Cherokee is recent and its source is easily traceable, but the language has already developed a complex tonal alignment and tonal phonology. Hiroto Uchihara's description of tone and accent in Oklahoma Cherokee will not only contribute to a deeper understanding of the sound system of Cherokee, but will also advance the historical study of Iroquoian languages as a whole, and the typological study of tonal and accentual systems more generally.

General

Imprint: Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Oxford Studies of Endangered Languages, 3
Release date: March 2016
Authors: Hiroto Uchihara (Assistant Research Professor)
Dimensions: 239 x 162 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-873944-9
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Phonetics, phonology, prosody (speech)
Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Grammar, syntax, linguistic structure > General
Promotions
LSN: 0-19-873944-3
Barcode: 9780198739449

Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate? Let us know about it.

Does this product have an incorrect or missing image? Send us a new image.

Is this product missing categories? Add more categories.

Review This Product

No reviews yet - be the first to create one!

You might also like..

Become A Better Writer - How To Write…
Donald Powers, Greg Rosenberg Paperback R245 R226 Discovery Miles 2 260
Syntax: A Generative Introduction 4e and…
A Carnie Paperback R2,154 Discovery Miles 21 540
The Oxford Handbook of Pragmatics
Yan Huang Hardcover R4,819 Discovery Miles 48 190
The Oxford Handbook of Information…
Caroline Fery, Shinichiro Ishihara Hardcover R4,855 Discovery Miles 48 550
Aspects of Split Ergativity
Jessica Coon Hardcover R4,083 Discovery Miles 40 830
How Words Mean - Lexical Concepts…
Vyvyan Evans Hardcover R4,682 Discovery Miles 46 820
The Oxford Handbook of Japanese…
Shigeru Miyagawa, Mamoru Saito Hardcover R4,996 Discovery Miles 49 960
Locality
Enoch Olade Aboh, Maria Teresa Guasti, … Hardcover R3,994 Discovery Miles 39 940
The Architecture of Determiners
Thomas Leu Hardcover R3,634 Discovery Miles 36 340
Micro-Syntactic Variation in North…
Raffaella Zanuttini, Laurence Horn Hardcover R4,096 Discovery Miles 40 960
Japanese Syntax in Comparative…
Mamoru Saito Hardcover R4,090 Discovery Miles 40 900
Grammar - A Student's Guide
James R Hurford Hardcover R2,361 Discovery Miles 23 610

See more

Partners