33.406, Books: Proto-Fula–Sereer: Pozdniakov

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Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2022 09:58:11
From: Sebastian Nordhoff [Sebastian.Nordhoff at langsci-press.org]
Subject: Proto-Fula–Sereer: Pozdniakov

 


Title: Proto-Fula–Sereer 
Subtitle: Lexicon, morphophonology, and noun classes 
Publication Year: 2022 
Publisher: Language Science Press
	   http://langsci-press.org
	

Book URL: https://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/325 


Author: Konstantin Pozdniakov

Electronic: ISBN:  9783961103348 Pages: 368 Price: Europe EURO 0 Comment: Open Access


Abstract:

This monograph proposes a reconstruction of the lexicon, the morphophonology
and the noun class system of Proto-Fula–Sereer (~3500 BP). Fula–Sereer
represents one of the six branches of the North-Atlantic group.
North-Atlantic, together with the Bak group of languages, forms the Atlantic
family, which represents a separate branch within the Niger-Congo
macro-family.

The lexical reconstruction of the proto-language of a group such as
Fula–Sereer requires the solution of a number of questions that are of
interest for the general theory of comparative studies. These questions deal
with the morphophonological mutations of root-initial consonants. Since
consonant mutations were structured into morphological paradigms already at
the Proto-Fula–Sereer stage, the evolution of initial consonantism in Fula and
Sereer was based not on regular phonetic changes, but on massive irregular
analogous changes. The reconstruction of Proto-Fula–Sereer consonant mutations
is given in Chapter 2. In Chapters 3-6 the author proposes a reconstruction of
the initial consonants. Next, the reconstruction of final consonants (Chapter
7) as well as vowels (Chapter 8) is given. In Chapter 9, taking in account the
lexical cognates, the long-standing problem of the PFS noun class
reconstruction is rediscussed. The Appendix provides a list of ~720 lexical
reconstructions and their approximate meanings.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics

Language Family(ies): Atlantic


Written In: English  (eng)

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