The Luiseño Absolutive Suffix: Diachronic Perspectives  

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Mamet, Ingo

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Anthropological Linguistics (ada di JSTOR) vol. 52 no. 3 (2010), page 239-273.
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The absolutive suffix, Los Angeles a semantically empty nominal increment, is a typical feature of Uto-Aztecan early days of allomorphs in languages. As has been comparative Uto-Aztecan languages of the Takic branch suggested since the research, the distribution of its provides insight into specific phonological processes is especially of the protolanguage. variable and, at the same time, In Luiseño, the suffix allomorphy archaic. The purpose of this article is to correlate the prosodie structure of Luiseño nominais with that of their cognate forms outside the Takic branch and to derive conclusions about the historical developments governing especially the extent to which the stress the distribution of the absolutive allomorphs, hypothetical stress-controlled consonant patterns of Proto-Uto-Aztecan and a strengthening can account for the situation in Luiseño. There is a clear diachronic contrast between stems with the shapes CVCV or exhibiting the CVC, which are regularly of Uto-Aztecan shape CVCV, added to the lexicon more origin, and those recently. Furthermore, stem-forming role in Luiseño noun formation, affecting suffixes are argued stress patterns 1. Introduction. Luiseño is a recently to play an important and choice of absolutive allomorph.

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