Pre-Root Accretions in Anejom̃
Anejom̃, a member of the Southern Vanuatu subgroup of Oceanic, has accreted a reflex of the Proto-Oceanic article *na to most nouns and a vowel to most verbs. The reflexes have phonologically conditioned forms depending on whether the first vowel of the root was or was not *a. But there are many app...
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| 格式: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| 語言: | Anglais |
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Journal de la société des océanistes
2021
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| 在線閱讀: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| 總結: | Anejom̃, a member of the Southern Vanuatu subgroup of Oceanic, has accreted a reflex of the Proto-Oceanic article *na to most nouns and a vowel to most verbs. The reflexes have phonologically conditioned forms depending on whether the first vowel of the root was or was not *a. But there are many apparent exceptions to this statement. This paper discusses these exceptional cases and shows that most can be explained by a series of regular rules. |
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