Invited speaker: Pavel Iosad (University of Edinburgh) Morphological alternations can be realized through the concatenation of affixes, or through non-concatenative processes that do not involve the addition of segmental material, such as modifications of suprasegmental features (e.g. length or tone), or the featural constituents of segments (e.g. vowel height, consonantal manner of articulation). The two nouns below, from Nuer (a West Nilotic language of South Sudan and Ethiopia), illustrate

Abstract This paper illustrates that in-depth descriptive work of closely related varieties of Dinka, a Nilotic tone language with an unusually complex suprasegmental system, provides solutions to pre...

Verbs in Dinka (West Nilotic, Nilo-Saharan) are largely monosyllabic, but nonetheless the language displays a rich inventory of inflectional and derivational forms realized through alternations of the...