Gemination Processes: Motivation, Form and Constraints

Gemination in Pulaar, a dialect of Fula, does not always follow typically known gemination processes, and previous attempts to analyze Pulaar gemination processes (McIntosh 1985, Paradis 1992, Bakovic 1995) were unsatisfactory. The proposed analyses fail to account for numerous exceptions and do not...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Niang, Mamadou
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Kansas 1995-01-01
Series:Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1808/446