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  • Language Family: Kwa
  • Topic #1: Tone
  • Topic #2: Nominals
Tone and the Associative Construction in Tone and the Associative Construction in Akan

The associative morpheme in Akan appears to have historically lost its segmental representation in surface grammatical and phonological structure, leaving behind only its H tonal effect at the phonetic surface. We will demonstrate in this paper that the associative morpheme did not lose its segmental melody in *proto-Akan as such but rather, over time, the association of the segmental melody of the associative morpheme to its tone melody, underwent change. Hence, the segmental and tone melodies became toneless and segmentless respectively. We will also demonstrate in this paper that in phonological representations, the segmentless Associative H in Akan floats between the possessor and the possessed NPs in the associative phrase. But in phonetic representations it often lands on either the toneless segmental constituent of the associative morpheme in Fante and Akuapem or the initial syllable of the possessed noun-root in Asante. Furthermore, the association of the Associative H varies across the dialects of Akan, with each dialect associating it with one syllable or another in the Associative Phrase.

   

                Le morphème associatif en akan paraît avoir perdu historiquement sa représentation segmentale en surface dans la structure grammaticale et phonologique, laissant derrière seulement son effet tonal H à la surface phonétique. Nous allons démontrer dans cette étude, que le morphème associatif n’a pas perdu, en tant que tel, sa mélodie segmentale en *proto-akan, mais plutôt, avec le temps, l’association de la mélodie segmentale du morphème associatif à sa mélodie tonale, a subi un changement. La mélodie segmentale et la melodie tonale sont devenues respectivement sans segment et sans ton. Nous allons également démontrer, dans cette étude, que dans les représentations phonologiques, le H associatif sans segment en akan flotte entre le possesseur et les GN (NPs) possédés dans le groupe associatif. Toutefois, dans les représentations phonétiques, cela retombe souvent soit sur le constituent segmental sans ton du morphème associatif en fante ou en akuapem, soit sur la syllable initiale de la racine nominale du nom jouant le rôle du possédé en asante. En outre, l’association du ton H de l’associatif varie d’un dialecte à l’autre en akan, chaque dialecte pouvant l’associer à une syllable ou à une autre dans le groupe associatif.

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