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In Japanese, nouns may be derived from verbs by means of the suffix -mono. 1 In Kyoto Japanese, this suffix exhibits interesting prosodic properties which hitherto have not been remarked upon in the literature: -mono derivatives form a systematic exception to the regularity whereby a complex word has the word tone of its initial constituent; this is preliminarily exemplified in (1) (in (1) and (2), phonetic high pitch is represented by boldface; see immediately below about the phonological interpretation): (1) kaimono ‘shopping’

In his 1963 paper “Morphemic Tone and Word Tone in Eastern Norwegian”, Jorgen Rischel discusses the lexical representation of morphemic tone and the relation between the tone of (isolated) words and the tone of their constituent morphemes. The overt emphasis is descriptive, but the issues he addresses are of importance to general theoretical linguistics, for they concern the very core of morphophonology in both its structural and generative aspect.