Floating tones in Ga

Floating tones in Ga

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This paper provides robust empirical evidence for floating tones in Ga, a Kwa language of Ghana. As will be shown, floating tones are crucial to an analysis of verbal tense/aspect/mood distinctions. I begin by describing two tonal processes, the HL rule and Plateauing. While these are regular proces...

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Main Author: Mary Paster
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: LibraryPress@UF 2003-06-01
Series:Studies in African Linguistics
Subjects:
tone
Ga
Kwa
floating tones
aspect
mood
Online Access:https://ojs.test.flvc.org/sal/article/view/107345

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https://ojs.test.flvc.org/sal/article/view/107345

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