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• W2892027497 abstract "Reviewed by: The phonology of Chichewa by Laura J. Downing and Al Mtenje Michael R. Marlo, Joshua Frost, Elizabeth Kujath, Cara Lawlor, Sarah Pribe, Emily Raney, Patrick Skrivan, and Alexa Thein The phonology of Chichewa. By Laura J. Downing and Al Mtenje. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. Pp. xvi, 294. ISBN 9780198724742. $90 (Hb). The phonology of Chichewa (TPOC) is the first monograph-length study of the segmental and tonal phonology of Chichewa, a Bantu language spoken primarily in Malawi. The text focuses on the standard central Malawian variety, the variety spoken by the second author, Al Mtenje. TPOC draws on data from several sources, including field notes and prior published research by Mtenje and coauthor Laura J. Downing. Data from other sources, which sometimes represent other dialects of Chichewa, are retranscribed to reflect Mtenje's variety. TPOC contains eleven chapters, beginning with an introduction (Ch. 1) and a grammar sketch (Ch. 2). Next are two chapters on segmental phonology, one on consonants (Ch. 3) and one on vowels (Ch. 4), each emphasizing distributional patterns of segments in the inventory. Following a chapter on syllable structure (Ch. 5), there are three chapters on tone: Ch. 6 describes the lexical tone patterns of nouns and verbs; Chs. 7–8 are concerned with the grammatical tone patterns of verbs in main-clause affirmative constructions (Ch. 7) and negative and relative clauses (Ch. 8). Ch. 9 discusses prosodic morphology, focusing on reduplication and disyllabic minimality conditions found on words and reduplicants and imposed as selectional requirements of certain affixes. Ch. 10 deals with phrasal phonology. Penultimate lengthening and tonal processes that are sensitive to the final two syllables of the phrase serve as diagnostics for the right edge of phonological phrases. The chapter summarizes the role of syntax in defining prosodic phrase boundaries in Chichewa. Finally, Ch. 11 surveys intonation patterns in different sentence structures. TPOC marks several important milestones in the study of Bantu languages. First, it is the second volume on a Bantu language in the prominent Oxford University Press series 'The phonology of the world's languages', appearing just over twenty years after Odden's (1996) volume on Kimatuumbi. Second, this book makes Chichewa one of the best-described Bantu languages, as there are now dedicated monographs on the syntax (Mchombo 2004) and phonology of the language, each published in premier venues and written by a native-speaker linguist. Overall, TPOC is an excellent compilation of the available knowledge on Chichewa phonology, and it will be a standard reference on the language for years to come. The book is well organized, and there are ample appropriate cross-references throughout the text. The chapters on segmental phonology have internally parallel structures and are easy to navigate. The extra detail on certain syntactic structures in the grammar sketch appropriately lays the foundation for the discussion of phonology-syntax interface issues in Ch. 10. TPOC is well researched and serves as an entry point to all prior literature on Chichewa phonology. The text also serves as a springboard into cases where Chichewa data have been brought to bear on theoretical issues, such as the analysis of vowel-height harmony (Ch. 4) and the interface between syntax and phonology (Ch. 10). One area where some appropriate background research is not cited is in Ch. 3, where we learn that some Chichewa dialects have whistled fricatives. It would have been helpful to refer to studies of whistled fricatives in other Bantu languages, such as Bladon et al. 1987, Shosted 2011, and Lee-Kim et al. 2014, at the first mention of these fricatives here. Two other omissions are the questionnaires on questions and relative clauses in volumes 53 and 55 of ZAS Papers in Linguistics (Downing et al. 2010 and Downing 2011, respectively). The question 'Do you want coffee or tea?' is directly from the questionnaire in Downing 2011, but unattributed as such. Largely following the questionnaire-based approach of Marlo 2013 and the models in Odden & Bickmore 2014, the description of verbal tone in Chs. 7–8 represents one of the most detailed treatments of any Bantu language. The authors identify eight numbered inflectional tone 'pat [End Page 714] terns..." @default.
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