Vowel quality alternation in Dinka verb inflection
Vowel quality alternation in Dinka verb inflection
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丁卡语动词变形中的元音质量交替
作者：
Torben Andersen
丁卡语是苏丹境内主要的西尼罗河语言，在很大程度上是一种单音节语言。然而，它有一个复杂的形态。因此，其形态的一个重要部分是非词缀，表现在词根的形态音素变化。这种变化涉及以下一个或多个参数：元音质量、元音长度、语音质量、语调和最后的辅音。虽然在安徒生（出版）中处理元音长度，语音质量和音调的变化，但本文处理元音质量的变化。这里讨论的丁卡语方言是琼脂，更具体地说，是来自帕贡地区的人们所说的琼脂，帕贡是苏丹南部伦贝克东南约20公里的一个村庄。本研究的主要信息提供者是Isaac Maker， David Daniel Marial和Peter Gum Panther。
Dinka, a major Western Nilotic language spoken in the Sudan, is to a large extent a monosyllabic language. Nevertheless, it has a complex morphology. Thus a significant part of its morphology is non-affixal, being manifested by way of morphophonological alternations in the root. Such alternations involve one or more of the following parameters: vowel quality, vowel length, voice quality, tone and final consonant. While alternations in vowel length, voice quality and tone are treated in Andersen (in press), the present article deals with vowel quality alter-nation. The dialect of Dinka treated here is Agar, more specifically the variety of Agar spoken by people from the area of Pacong, a village about 20 kilometres south-east of Rumbek in Southern Sudan. My principal informants for the present study were Isaac Maker, David Daniel Marial and Peter Gum Panther.