@phdthesis{29063,
  address               = {Ann Arbor},
  author                = {Ganga, Celestin},
  note                  = {Includes bibliographical references (S. 381-397)},
  pages                 = {xxvi+397},
  publisher             = {UMI},
  school                = {Georgetown University},
  title                 = {The Sound Structure of Lari},
  year                  = {1992},
  abstract              = {This dissertation is not, as the above proverb indicates, the first work on the Lari language. It is a sequel, an improvement of early studies on the language. Although the generative approach has been most inspirational, other approaches have been used in some cases when a different application would be more meaningful or revealing. This dissertation is in four parts: history of the language and its people, phonology, suprasegmentals, and morphology. Chapter One retraces the history of the Lari people and their language. It classifies Lari among the dialects of the Kongo Language as a Bantu language, and the most important linguistic group in the Congo. Chapter Two is the study of the sound system of Lari. Using the generative approach, an inventory of phonemes along with phonological processes have been developed or established. Accordingly, the language has a rich consonantal system with three nasals, six stops, six affricates, six fricatives, one liquid, and two glides or semi-vowels. The vocalic system has ten vowels, five long vowels and five short ones. The structures of the syllables have been analyzed in this chapter too. Chapter Three deals with the suprasegmentals. With the use of the autosegmental approach we have shown that Lari is an accentual and tonal language. The accent has helped us analyze the verbal and nominal tonal behavior and then the tonal behavior in phrases and clauses. Chapter Four is a study of the structures of words. First, nouns are classified in terms of their ability to accept noun class affixes as well as their belonging to certain semantic fields. The component parts of the noun phrase and various rules governing different syntactic structures have been taken into consideration. Second, a comprehensive set of phrase structure rules are established to account for the generation of numerals in Lari. Third, the complex structure of the verb has been analyzed. Tense marker affixes and derivation affixes along with phonological processes have accounted for the various formations of the verb and have classified the verb into various groups. In other words, a theory of derivational morphology has been proposed to handle affixation and compounding in Lari. Finally, the structures of some phrases (structures of noun phrases, numerals) and clauses (verb conjugation) have been described quite indirectly.},
  adviser               = {Sara, Solomon I.},
  bestfn                = {africa\ganga_lari1992v2_o.pdf},
  besttxt               = {ptxt2\africa\ganga_lari1992v2_o.txt},
  cfn                   = {africa\ganga_lari1992_o.pdf},
  class_loc             = {PL8725},
  degree                = {PhD},
  delivered             = {africa\ganga_lari1992_o.pdf},
  digital_formats       = {PDF 10.01Mb image-only PDF},
  document_type         = {2 B},
  fn                    = {africa\ganga_lari1992v2_o.pdf, africa\ganga_lari1992.pdf, africa\ganga_lari1992_o.pdf, africa\ganga _lari1992_o.pdf},
  hhtype                = {grammar_sketch},
  inlg                  = {English [eng]},
  keywords              = {;caf;cng;drc;lng;phn;bnt;h.16f;ths;},
  lgcode                = {Lari = Laari [ldi]},
  macro_area            = {Africa},
  mpi_eva_library_shelf = {PL 8725 GAN 2007},
  mpifn                 = {lari_ganga1992_o.pdf},
  oclc                  = {26998024},
  source                = {DAI-A 53/10, p. 3510, Apr 1993},
  src                   = {eballiso2009, hh, mpieva, weball},
  subject               = {LANGUAGE, LINGUISTICS (0290); LANGUAGE, GENERAL (0679)},
  subject_headings      = {caf, cng, lng, phn, bnt, h.16f, ths},
  umi_id                = {9306082}
}