High tone bumping in Runyankore.

As seen in (52), when B /ki/ b follows the enclitic sequence B /mú/ b + B /hó/ b , it also blocks the bumping effect that B /hó/ b is expected to have on B /mú/ b : (52) a. Since HTB would require the verb to end with B -ir-é b with bumping of the final H to produce B -ír-e b , it will be necessary to cite forms with a H tone root such as B /-kóm-/ b "tie" in (27). Section 5): /mú/ bumps the H on the FV B /-é/ b onto B -ir- b , and B /hó/ b bumps the H of B /mú/ b back onto the B /-é/ b . HT <table><colgroup><col align="left" /><col align="left" /><col align="left" /></colgroup><tbody><tr><td><bold>tu-ka-gur-ir-a + ó-mu-goré + e-rí</bold></td><td>-></td></tr><tr><td> H H H</td><td /></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><bold>tu-ka-gur-ir' ó-mu-gór' ee-rí</bold> (...)</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"> H <underline>H</underline> H*</td></tr></tbody></table> ht b. HT <table><colgroup><col align="left" /><col align="left" /></colgroup><tbody><tr><td>cf.</td><td><bold>tu-ka-gur-ir' ó-mu-gór' éé-ri</bold></td></tr><tr><td /><td> H <underline>H</underline> H* L%</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2">"we bought the bride (cl.1) that one (cl.9)"</td></tr></tbody></table> ht In (30a), the two B /e/ b vowels of B /ó-mu-goré/ b "bride" (cl.1) and B /e-rí/ b "that one (cl.9)" first fuse as B [éé] b with a single H tone which is then bumped onto the penult of "bride". Keywords: Bantu; iterative rule application; tone shift; tone spans EN Bantu iterative rule application tone shift tone spans 37 81 45 09/13/22 20220501 NES 220501 1 Introduction The purpose of this paper is to describe High Tone Bumping (HTB), a rather unusual tonal process in Runyankore [nyn], a Bantu language of the Rutara (or Western Nyanza) subgroup spoken in Uganda. [Extracted from the article]