Kiranti linking /ʔ/
Van Driem (1990:84)1 has recently called attention to a linking /7/ in Kiranti: "In Limbu, compounds arose such as hanuo 'fireplace stone', derived from ha 'tooth' and /up 'stone' with an unexplained linking glottal stop, not uncommon in compounds." The /7/...
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| description | Van Driem (1990:84)1 has recently called attention to a linking /7/ in Kiranti:
"In Limbu, compounds arose such as hanuo 'fireplace stone', derived from ha 'tooth' and /up 'stone' with an unexplained linking glottal stop, not uncommon in compounds."
The /7/ here, to be assigned morphemic status, surely is the residue of Proto-Tibeto-Burman *a- = *?a-, basically a 3rd person pronominal element (Benedict 1972:121 ff.): 'tooth-its-stone'. Van Driem indicates that the /7/ is variable ('not uncommon') here, paralleling PTB *?a-. The writer has frequently in Tibeto-Burman source material encountered an apparently random /7/ that would appear to fit with the Limbu linking /7/ and, indeed, one would anticipate parallelism in this line of development. |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/1793582024-07-30T06:02:09Z Kiranti linking /ʔ/ Benedict, Paul K. Arts and Humanities Van Driem (1990:84)1 has recently called attention to a linking /7/ in Kiranti: "In Limbu, compounds arose such as hanuo 'fireplace stone', derived from ha 'tooth' and /up 'stone' with an unexplained linking glottal stop, not uncommon in compounds." The /7/ here, to be assigned morphemic status, surely is the residue of Proto-Tibeto-Burman *a- = *?a-, basically a 3rd person pronominal element (Benedict 1972:121 ff.): 'tooth-its-stone'. Van Driem indicates that the /7/ is variable ('not uncommon') here, paralleling PTB *?a-. The writer has frequently in Tibeto-Burman source material encountered an apparently random /7/ that would appear to fit with the Limbu linking /7/ and, indeed, one would anticipate parallelism in this line of development. Published version 2024-07-30T06:02:08Z 2024-07-30T06:02:08Z 1994 Journal Article Benedict, P. K. (1994). Kiranti linking /ʔ/. Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area, 17(1), 175-175. https://dx.doi.org/10.32655/LTBA.17.1.11 0731-3500 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/179358 10.32655/LTBA.17.1.11 1 17 175 175 en Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area © 1994 The Editor(s). All rights reserved. application/pdf |
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