36.1784, Books: Tone in Yongning Na: Michaud (2025)

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Subject: 36.1784, Books: Tone in Yongning Na: Michaud (2025)

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Date: 06-Jun-2025
From: Sebastian Nordhoff [support at langsci-press.org]
Subject: Tone in Yongning Na: Michaud (2025)


Title: Tone in Yongning Na
Subtitle: Lexical tones and morphotonology
Series Title: Studies in DIversity Linguistics
Publication Year: 2025

Publisher: Language Science Press
           http://langsci-press.org
Book URL: https://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/513

Author(s): Alexis Michaud

eBook

Abstract:

Yongning Na, also known as Mosuo, is a Sino-Tibetan language spoken in
Southwest China. This book provides a description and analysis of its
tone system, progressing from lexical tones towards morphotonology.
Tonal changes permeate numerous aspects of the morphosyntax of
Yongning Na. They are not the product of a small set of phonological
rules, but of a host of rules that are restricted to specific
morphosyntactic contexts. Rich morphotonological systems have been
reported in this area of Sino-Tibetan, but book-length descriptions
remain few. This study of an endangered language contributes to a
better understanding of the diversity of prosodic systems in East
Asia.
The analysis is based on original fieldwork data (made available
online), collected over the course of ten years, commencing in 2006.
This book is a new edition of
https://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/109

Linguistic Field(s): Morphology
                     Phonetics
                     Phonology

Language Family(ies): Sino-Tibetan




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