The Phonology Syntax Interface

This chapter discusses the “phonology–syntax interface”. It shows that the Kwa languages are tone languages like most West African languages. As such they use suprasegmatals (tonemes) in addition to phonemes to form morphemes. The suprasegmentals also play a role in syntax where they sometimes express aspect and modality, as well as signal a syntactic configuration (e.g., that between a head and its licensed complement).

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