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English
Etymology
From tonological + -ly.
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Adverb
tonologically (not comparable)
- (linguistics) In a tonological manner; with respect to tone.
1972, African Abstracts: A Quarterly Review of Ethnographic, Social, and Linguistic Studies Appearing in Current Periodicals, volume 13, London: Oxford University Press, →OCLC, page 192:All of them influence tonologically the preceding noun in the same way: the qualified noun bears the A tonomorpheme.
1987, Alfons Weidert, “Evidence for PTB *Creaky Phonation = T/G/Th *A-tone”, in Tibeto-Burman Tonology: A Comparative Account (Amsterdam Studies in the Theory and History of Linguistic Science. Series IV, Current Issues in Linguistic Theory; 54), Amsterdam, Philadelphia, Pa.: John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 303:he fact that a lexically specifiable subgroup of etyma from within the whole group of *creaky phonation etyma split off tonologically is not surprising by itself, but rather the fact that the tonological outcome of such a development is one of blurred and opaque relationships within the resulting tone pattern.
2004, Alexandre Kimenyi, “Kinyarwanda (Bantu)”, in Geert Booij, Christian Lehmann, Joachim Mugdan, Stavros Skopeteas, editors, Morphologie: Ein Internationales Handbuch Zur Flexion und Wortbildung [Morphology: An International Handbook on Inflection and Word-Formation], volume 2, Berlin, New York, N.Y.: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 1533:In some cases, tenses keep this tone contrast, in others these tones are neutralized by either assigning tones to non-toned verb stems or by deleting tones, making all types of verb stems look the same tonologically speaking.
2013, “Morphology”, in Rainer Vossen, editor, The Khoesan Languages (Routledge Language Family Series), Abingdon, Oxon., New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 212:Derivative suffixes marked by an asterisk are tonologically flexible; they do not take a fixed tone but rather vary in their tonal behaviour in accordance with the tonal pattern of the verb stem.
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