Spurious high-tone extensions in Luganda

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dc.contributor.authorHyman, Larry M.
dc.contributor.authorKatamba, Francis X.
dc.date.accessioned2023-01-15T11:05:25Z
dc.date.available2023-01-15T11:05:25Z
dc.date.issued1990
dc.description.abstractA handful of mostly older descriptions of Bantu tone systems note an unexpected H tone effect on verb stems containing a causative -j- or passive -u- extension. Meeussen cites these effects as archaic and reconstructs H tone on these vocalic suffixes in Proto-Bantu. It has been difficult to evaluate this historical claim, since not all Bantu tone systems exhibit what we are calling 'spurious H-tone extensions', and still fewer of these have been described in detail. In this article we present a reasonably complete description of spurious H-tone effects in Luganda, demonstrating that spurious H can (and must) appear only when these extensions occur on a 'modified base' (<PB • -p-e) verb form in an inflectional frame that independently requires a H tone suffix. We suggest that the unexpected additional H tone is not underlyingly on the vocalic suffixes, but rather has the status of an enclitic in synchronic Luganda. We hypothesize that spurious H is a relic of an earlier stage of Bantu when the verb stem had not yet been completely forged into a single unit. This allows us to provide a diachronic account both of its present-day distribution and of two other effects its presence has on the verb: obligatory final -a instead of the more usual -e of the modified base, and blocking of tone-group formation when it would otherwise occur.en_US
dc.identifier.citationLarry M. Hyman & Francis X. Katamba (1990) Spurious high-tone extensions in Luganda, South African Journal of African Languages, 10:4, 142-158, DOI: 10.1080/02572117.1990.10586847en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1080/02572117.1990.10586847
dc.identifier.urihttps://nru.uncst.go.ug/handle/123456789/6941
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherSouth African Journal of African Languagesen_US
dc.subjectSpurious high-tone extensionsen_US
dc.subjectLugandaen_US
dc.titleSpurious high-tone extensions in Lugandaen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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