Describe how these changes work in prose, as succinctly as you can. In addition to using words, illustrate these changes as mappings from bare nouns to affixed forms: /báse/ + “+case”
Tones in Angas
The Angas languages are spoken in north-central Nigeria, and they have three level tones, High, Mid and Low. In the transcriptions below , There are three sets of Angas data: the bare nouns; the nouns as they appear when followed by a case marker; and the nouns as they appear when followed by an adjective. Bare Nouns Nouns when followed by case Nouns when followed by an adjective
[téŋ] ‘rope’ [téŋ] rope (+ case) [têŋ] rope (+ adj.)
[mús] ‘cat’ [mús] cat (+ case) [mûs] cat (+ adj)
[tʃén] ‘hoe’ [tʃén] hoe (+ case) [tʃên] hoe (+ adj)
[njí] ‘elephant’ [njí] elephant (+ case) [njî] elephant (+ adj)
[ʒwal] ‘boy’ [ʒwǎl] boy (+ case) [ʒwâl] boy (+adj)
[ʔas] ‘dog’ [ʔǎs] dog (+ case) [ʔâs] dog (+adj)
[ɟem] ‘child’ [ɟěm] child (+ case) [ɟêm] child (+adj)
[màs] ‘locust bean’ [mǎs] locust bean (+ case) [màs] locust bean (+adj)
[pùk] ‘soup’ [pǔk] soup (+ case) [pùk] soup (+ adj)
[ʔàs] ‘tooth’ [ʔǎs] tooth (+ case) [ʔàs] tooth (+ adj)
Q1) When you add the “+ case” meaning to a noun, sometimes its tone changes and sometimes it doesn’t; same for adding “+ adjective”. Describe how these changes work in prose, as succinctly as you can. In addition to using words, illustrate these changes as mappings from bare nouns to affixed forms: /báse/ + “+case”
Q2) There are two affixes in these data: one that means “+ case” and one that means “+adjective” … But these affixes contain no segments! … What are the underlying forms of these two morphemes? Explain.