The borrowing of aspects as lexical tone classes Y-intial Tuareg verbs in Tasawaq

In Tasawaq, a Northern Songhay language of Niger, there exists a lexical tone class distinction between stative and active verbs. This tone class distinction only exists in one class of verbs borrowed from Tuareg, verbs with an initial y-. In this article, I argue that the tone class distinction ref...

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