Rara #126

Legacy number: 126

 Number  126
 Phenomenon  tonal agreement:
lexical tone of possessive pronoun (H or HL), and no other determiner or modifier, being reproduced on the noun it is in syntactic construction with, replacing the noun's own lexical tone (also H or HL, with initial L extratonal)
 Found in  Barasana (Eastern Tukanoan, Andean-Equatorial)
 Domain  phonology, syntax — tone, agreement
 Type  nonesuch
 Keywords  possessive pronoun
 Source  Gomez-Imbert, Elsa (2001). More on the tone versus pitch accent typology: Evidence from Barasana and other Eastern Tukanoan languages. In Shigeki Kaji (ed.), Cross-Linguistic Studies of Tonal Phenomena: Tonogenesis, Japanese Accentology, and Other Topics, 369-412. Tokyo: Institute for the Study of Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa.
 Violates  none

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