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Loanwords and Linguistic Phylogenetics: *pelek̑u‐ ‘axe’ and *(H)a(i̯)g̑‐ ‘goat’1
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 1, Page 116-136, March 2025.Abstract This paper assesses the role of borrowings in two different approaches to linguistic phylogenetics: Traditional qualitative analyses of lexemes, and quantitative computational analysis of cognacy. It problematises the assumption that loanwords can be excluded altogether from datasets of lexical cognacy.
Simon Poulsen
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Esquisse de la tonologie synchronique de Wemɛgbe dialecte Gbe du sud-Benin
Studies in African Linguistics, 2004 In this paper I show that Wemegbe, a language spoken in southern Benin, has two underlying tones, H and L, and that the surface tones M, LH and HL are derived by phonological rules.
Flavien Gbeto
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The productivity of ‘unnatural’ labial palatalization in Xhosa
Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics, 2016 Xhosa (Bantu, South Africa) has a pattern of labial palatalization. When the passive suffix /-w-/ is added to a stem ending in a labial, the labial becomes palatal (uku-lum-a → uku-luɲ-w-a).
Wm. G. Bennett, Aaron Braver
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Morphophonological Nature of Mari Accentuation as Viewed from the Uralic Perspective; pp. 184-207 [PDF]
Linguistica Uralica, 2013 This paper analyses the system of accentuation in Mari. Based on the data collected in the village of Staryj Torjal, the author argues that Mari stress cannot be described only on the phonetic/phonological level.
Fedor Rozhanskiy
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Set the controls for the heart of the alternation: Dahl’s Law in Kitharaka [PDF]
, 2013 This paper looks at Dahl’s Law, a voicing dissimilation process found in a number of Bantu languages, in Kitharaka, and argues that it is best analysed within a framework of minimal (contrastive) feature spe- cifications.
Uffmann, Christian
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Romance Loans in Middle Dutch and Middle English: Retained or Lost? A Matter of Metre1
Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract Romance words have been borrowed into all medieval West‐Germanic languages. Modern cognates show that the metrical patterns of loans can differ although the Germanic words remain constant: loan words Dutch kolónie, English cólony, German Koloníe compared with Germanic words Dutch wéduwe, English wídow, German Wítwe.
Johanneke Sytsema, Aditi Lahiri
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Linguistic Discovery, 2011 In this paper, we present an analysis of the tone system of Tiriki, a Bantu language spoken in Kenya and previously undescribed in the linguistic literature.
Mary Paster, Yuni Kim
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The Development of Indo‐Iranian Voiced Fricatives
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 1, Page 97-115, March 2025.Abstract The development of voiced sibilants is a long‐standing puzzle in Indo‐Iranian historical phonology. In Vedic, all voiced sibilants are lost from the system, but the details of this loss are complex and subject to debate. The most intriguing development concerns the word‐final ‐aḥ to ‐o in sandhi.
Gašper Beguš
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On derived environments in GP [PDF]
, 2006 This paper takes up the currently topical issue of derived environment effects (DEE) that is mainly to be found in the Optimality Theory (OT) literature (It & Mester 1996, Burzio 1998, ?ubowicz 2002, McCarthy 2003) but see also Kiparsky (1993) and ...
Kula, NC
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Linguistic Evidence Suggests that Xiōng‐nú and Huns Spoke the Same Paleo‐Siberian Language
Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract The Xiōng‐nú were a tribal confederation who dominated Inner Asia from the third century BC to the second century AD. Xiōng‐nú descendants later constituted the ethnic core of the European Huns. It has been argued that the Xiōng‐nú spoke an Iranian, Turkic, Mongolic or Yeniseian language, but the linguistic affiliation of the Xiōng‐nú and the ...
Svenja Bonmann, Simon Fries
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