ABOUT CONSONANT PHONEME COMBINATIONS IN THE BORDER OF MORPHEMES Cover Image

RRETH KOMBINIMIT TË BASHKËTINGËLLOREVE NË KUFI TË MORFEMAVE
ABOUT CONSONANT PHONEME COMBINATIONS IN THE BORDER OF MORPHEMES

Author(s): Mimoza Karagjozi-Kore
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Qendra e Studimeve Albanologjike
Keywords: CONSONANT PHONEME COMBINATIONS; MORPHEMES ; Albania; Albanian Language

Summary/Abstract: The phonemes of every language enter in combination among them. These combinations have often become object of study in different languages. The problem we want to examine, as far as we know, has been scarcely touched in the other languages and even less in the Albanian language. There exist mainly some articles of the Russian and Rumanian scholars, but also these treat the consonant groups in the beginning and the end of the word and few articles of our linguists. The concern on the absence of these works in this field has been expressed in the Albanian language, as the combinatory property of the sounds (which is not always indefinite) plays its role and brings changes in the morphology. In order to understand the structural changes of the word The aim of this work is to make an inventory of the consonants in morpheme borders among simple parts of speech and make their comparison with the groups of phonemes in the beginning of root morpheme. We will call these consonant combinations, as the nomination consonant group takes value in the beginning and the end of the word, wile in the at morpheme boundaries not all consonant combinations form similar groups, e.x. in the word permbush we have the combination /rmb/ which does not form a consonant group, different from /bll/ in the word bllokoj. The study of the phoneme combinations in this border and their comparison with the initial consonant groups in the beginning of the words permits us to talk about their distinctive functions and to observe this border as a field where assimilation and dissimilation phenomena are encountered and as an uninterrupted source of Sandi. Phonemes, by correlating between them, form different combinations. The particularities of every phonologic system are defined not only from the number of phonemes and their splitting, but even from the regularities of association of vowel and consonant phonemes between them. Consequently, the coherence in which the sounds enter is of main priority. These mutual coherences, which are created in the flow of speech and within the grammatical paradigm, are characteristic for a separate language and distinguish it form the other languages. This disappearance of definite phonemes in given positions constitutes an important feature to language typology. We encounter in this work the phoneme combination and its density in the prefix-theme borders.

  • Issue Year: 2007
  • Issue No: 01-02
  • Page Range: 108-121
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Albanian
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