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tonologically
tonologically
English
Adverb
tonologically (not comparable)
- (linguistics) In a tonological manner; with respect to tone.
- 1972, African Abstracts: A Quarterly Review of Ethnographic, Social, and Linguistic Studies Appearing in Current Periodicals, volume 13, London: Oxford University Press, OCLC 781606847, page 192:
- All of them influence tonologically the preceding noun in the same way: the qualified noun bears the A tonomorpheme.
- 1987, Alfons Weidert, “Evidence for PTB *Creaky Phonation = T/G/Th *A-tone”, in Tibeto-Burman Tonology: A Comparative Account (Amsterdam Studies in the Theory and History of Linguistic Science. Series IV, Current Issues in Linguistic Theory; 54), Amsterdam; Philadelphia, Pa.: John Benjamins Publishing Company, ISBN 978-90-272-3548-0, page 303:
- [T]he fact that a lexically specifiable subgroup of etyma from within the whole group of *creaky phonation etyma split off tonologically is not surprising by itself, but rather the fact that the tonological outcome of such a development is one of blurred and opaque relationships within the resulting tone pattern.
- 2004, Alexandre Kimenyi, “Kinyarwanda (Bantu)”, in Geert [E.] Booij, Christian Lehmann, Joachim Mugdan, and Stavros Skopeteas, editors, Morphologie: Ein Internationales Handbuch Zur Flexion und Wortbildung [Morphology: An International Handbook on Inflection and Word-Formation], volume 2, Berlin; New York, N.Y.: Walter de Gruyter, ISBN 978-3-11-017278-2, page 1533:
- In some cases, tenses keep this tone contrast, in others these tones are neutralized by either assigning tones to non-toned verb stems or by deleting tones, making all types of verb stems look the same tonologically speaking.
- 2013, “Morphology”, in Rainer Vossen, editor, The Khoesan Languages (Routledge Language Family Series), Abingdon, Oxon.; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, ISBN 978-0-7007-1289-2, page 212:
- Derivative suffixes marked by an asterisk are tonologically flexible; they do not take a fixed tone but rather vary in their tonal behaviour in accordance with the tonal pattern of the verb stem.
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