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Sereer has salient alternations in the initial consonants of noun and verb stems. These alternations appear to be morphologically conditioned in a lexically specified manner, since they occur in several different segmental contexts whose only common element is being within a morphologically derived environment (e.g. plurality in both nouns and verbs; addition of apparent nominalizing suffixes to verbs). |
Sereer has salient alternations in the initial consonants of noun and verb stems. These alternations appear to be morphologically conditioned in a lexically specified manner, since they occur in several different segmental contexts whose only common element is being within a morphologically derived environment (e.g. plurality in both nouns and verbs; addition of apparent nominalizing suffixes to verbs). |
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| − | === Nouns === |
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| − | Attested patterns of singular ~ plural alternations in nouns (along with prefix change): |
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| − | | Singular || Plural |
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| − | |mb || p |
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| − | |nd|| t |
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| − | |ng || k, q |
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| − | |} |
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| − | ---- |
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| − | a-mb p |
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| − | a-nd t |
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| − | ----------- |
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| − | o-k g |
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| − | o-t d |
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| − | ----------- |
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| − | f p |
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| − | f a-p |
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| − | ---------- |
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| − | r a-t |
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| − | d a-t |
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| − | ɗ a-ɗ̥ |
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| − | ɓ a-ɓ̥ |
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| − | ----------- |
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| − | ɔ-g a-k |
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| − | ɔ-ɟ a-c |
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| − | ----------- |
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| − | o-mb xa-p |
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| − | o-ŋg xa-q |
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| − | ----------- |
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| − | ɔ-f xa-p |
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| − | o-x xa-k |
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| − | ----------- |
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| − | ɔ-ɓ xa-ɓ̥ |
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| − | ɔ-d xa-t |
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| − | ----------- |
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| − | ɔ-r xa-t |
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| − | |} |
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Revision as of 23:43, 30 September 2012
Phonological Alternations
Morphophonology
Sereer has salient alternations in the initial consonants of noun and verb stems. These alternations appear to be morphologically conditioned in a lexically specified manner, since they occur in several different segmental contexts whose only common element is being within a morphologically derived environment (e.g. plurality in both nouns and verbs; addition of apparent nominalizing suffixes to verbs).
