Constraints on Pulaar Phonology

by Mamadou Ousmane Niang

Constraints in Pulaar Phonology provides clear and convincing analyses and solutions to linguistic phenomena whose treatment in the literature remained unsatisfactory until now. An analysis of the metrical structure and other morphological and phonological processes in Pulaar shows the need for further distinctions beyond the generally admitted binary ones. The argument is supported by various processes that obtain in Pulaar, a dialect of Fula,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761806113
• ISBN13: 9780761806110
• Release Date: December 1996
• Publisher: University Press of America
• Length: 170 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"