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Date: 23-Sep-2011
From: Brian Homoleski [publications_intl at sil.org]
Subject: The Kifuliiru Language volume 1:  Phonology, Tone, and Morphology
Derivation: Van Otterloo
 

	
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Title: The Kifuliiru Language volume 1:  Phonology, Tone, and Morphology
Derivation 
Series Title: Publications in Linguistics  

Publication Year: 2011 
Publisher: SIL International Publications
	   http://www.ethnologue.com/bookstore.asp
	

Book URL: http://www.ethnologue.com/show_product.asp?isbn=9781556712616 


Author: Karen Van Otterloo

Paperback: ISBN:  9781556712616 Pages: 516 Price: U.S. $ 52.99


Abstract:

This volume on Kifuliiru, a Bantu (J) language of the Democratic Republic of 
Congo, and its companion volume, The Kifuliiru Language: Volume 2: A 
Descriptive Grammar, is one of the most thorough and yet readable Bantu 
grammars available.  Designed primarily as language documentation rather 
than as theoretical analysis, these volumes aim at a thorough presentation of 
the many interesting features found in a typical Interlacustrine Bantu (J) 
language.  

A special highlight of this first volume is an unusually detailed and thorough 
autosegmental analysis of Kifuliiru tone, with emphasis on the realization of 
tone in an extensive variety of verbal forms and constructions, with and 
without various object prefixes and including passive and causative variations 
of most forms.  This allows clear evaluation of the concomitant tonal 
changes.  Whereas in most Bantu languages a high tone seems to contrast 
only with its absence, this thorough analysis of Kifuliiru indicates a 
synchronic three-way distinction in verbs between high (H), low (L), and 
toneless (0).  Verbs of all three classes are used to illustrate each different 
grammatical tone pattern.

One chapter is dedicated to a detailed presentation of the morphology and 
morphophonology of derivation in Kifuliiru.  Discussion of the verbal 
extensions includes the morphophonological and syntactic aspects as well as 
the semantic nuances of each extension.  An exhaustive treatment of the 
formation of the resultative (often called perfective) form of the verb stem is 
also included.

Karen Van Otterloo received a master's degree in linguistics from the 
University of Texas at Arlington in 1977.  She and her husband, Roger (author 
of Volume 2), lived with their family in the Kifuliiru-speaking area of what was 
then Zaire from 1980-1996, and still continue contact and involvement today. 



Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis
                     Language Documentation
                     Morphology
                     Phonetics
                     Phonology
                     Semantics

Subject Language(s): Fuliiru (flr)


Written In: English  (eng)
	
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