Abstract This paper presents a re-analysis of the tone of Kabiye nouns. It focuses on two tonal phenomena that have apparently not been reported elsewhere in Gur languages: root melodies associating to whole words and tonal overwriting. All singular suffixes are analyzed as being underlyingly toneless and receiving their surface tone by means of the root melody associating to the entire word, as though blind to the morpheme boundary. Association of tones to trimoraic words is dealt with by positing that the OCP is inactive. The non-singular (plural, collective and liquid) suffixes – with one exception – are underlyingly HL. The analysis of these forms distinguishes between non-overwriting suffixes, in which the word level tone is merely the sum of its parts, and overwriting suffixes, in which the tone of the suffix overwrites the final tone(s) of the root melody.

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卡比耶（Kabiye）名词的语气和音调覆盖

摘要本文对Kabiye名词的语调进行了重新分析。它着重于两种在古尔语中其他地方尚未见到的音调现象：与整个单词相关的根旋律和音调覆盖。所有奇异的后缀都被分析为基本无音调，并且通过与整个单词相关联的根旋律来接收其表面音调，好像对语素边界不可见。假定OCP处于非活动状态，则可以将音调与三边形单词相关联。非单数（复数，集合和液体）后缀（除一个例外）本质上是HL。对这些形式的分析区分了非覆盖后缀和覆盖后缀，在非覆盖后缀中，词级音调只是其各个部分的总和。