Blevins, J. and Lynch, John D. (2009) Morphological conditions on regular sound change? A reanalysis of *l-loss in Paamese and Southeast Ambrym. Oceanic Linguistics, 48 (1). pp. 111-129. ISSN 0029-8115
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Northern Paamese and Southeast Ambrym, two languages of Central Vanuatu, share a set of sound changes involving vocalization and loss of *l. One subpart of this sound change results in loss of *l word-initially before nonhigh vowels. An interesting aspect of this sound change is that it appears to apply in all word classes except verbs. Indeed, Crowley (1997) suggests that Northern Paamese *l-loss is a clear case of sound change with grammatical conditioning. In this paper we suggest that phonological and morphological aspects of verbal inflectional paradigms have given rise to the apparent exceptionality of *l-loss in these two languages. Phonological factors result in continuation of *l, while the structure of inflectional paradigms has given rise to analogical restoration of initial /l/ in all verbs where it is expected to be lost. Under this analysis, initial *l-loss can be seen to have applied without exception, and without grammatical conditioning.
| Item Type: | Journal Article |
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| Subjects: | P Language and Literature > PL Languages and literatures of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Arts, Law and Education (FALE) > Pacific Languages Unit |
| Depositing User: | Ms Shalni Sanjana |
| Date Deposited: | 29 Aug 2009 04:28 |
| Last Modified: | 29 Aug 2012 04:28 |
| URI: | https://repository.usp.ac.fj/id/eprint/5245 |
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