Much Adu 阿都 about something: extrusional labiovelars in a Northern Yi patois
Pan Zh\engy|un 潘正云 recently described for the subdialect ‘Adu’ 阿都 of the Northern group of Yi languages a series of labiovelar initials that are not found elsewhere in the entire Yi family (Pan 2001).He claims that these labiovelars must be reconstructed for Proto-Loloish. Yet nearly all of Pan’sman...
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| Language: | English |
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2024
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10356/177947 |
| Summary: | Pan Zh\engy|un 潘正云 recently described for the subdialect ‘Adu’ 阿都 of the Northern group of Yi languages a series of labiovelar initials that are not found elsewhere in the entire Yi family (Pan 2001).He claims that these labiovelars must be reconstructed for Proto-Loloish. Yet nearly all of Pan’smany examples show these labiovelar initials occurring before the Adu vowel -u-. Here, the Adu datais shown to establish and refine a number of roots at the PLB or PTB level, including ABLE; BEARD;CHEW; COMB; DARE; FACE; FIST; PLOW; and THRESHOLD/DOORWAY. Reconstructingthese etyma confirms the importance of extrusional phenomena in Tibeto-Burman languages, and givesvaluable evidence of the need to distinguish primary and secondary phonological developments |
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