Morphophonemics of Nisgha Plural Formation: A Step towards Proto-Tsimshian Reconstruction

To the purely descriptive linguist the Nisghal system of plural formation appears to be of great complexity. On the other hand, a generative phonological analysis of that system, carried as far as the data will allow, recovers an underlying morphological simplicity which has often been buried under...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics
Main Author: Tarpent, Marie-Lucie
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: University of Kansas 1983
Subjects:
Tsimshian language > Morphophonemics
Niska language
Philology. Linguistics
P1-1091
Niska
Nisgha
Tsimshian
Tsimshian*
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.17161/KWPL.1808.481
https://doaj.org/article/929e12ff22c24b58a500dca423689a59

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