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Aspects of Cinsenga tonology

Miti, Lazarus M

Aspects of Cinsenga tonology created by Lazarus M. Miti - Cape Town The Centre for Advanced Studies of African Society (CASAS) 2002 - 239 pages - no.26 . - CASAS Book Series .

Includes bibliographical references.

Chapter 1 - Introduction, 2 - Tone in nouns, 3 - Tone in verbs 1: declarative, indicative and subjunctive, 4 - Tone in verb 2: negative and imperative, 5 - Tone in verb 3: extended radicals and enclitics, 6 - The effect of object markers on verbal tone, 7 - Tone in noun phrases, 8 - Tone in qualificative forms, 9 - Tone in relative clauses, 10 - Conclusion

Aspects of ciNsenga Tonology is a description of the behaviour of tone in this Central Bantu language spoken in Chipata District of Zambia and Mchinji District of Malawi. It is a sequel to A Linguistic Analysis of ciNsenga (Miti 2001), which is a grammatical handbook comprising descriptions of the sound systems, the morphology and of some aspects of the syntax of the language.

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Nsenga language--Phonetics
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