المؤلفون: Lichtenberk, Frank

المصدر: Studies in Language; 2017, Vol. 41 Issue 2, p496-501, 6p

مصطلحات موضوعية: OCEANIC languages, AUSTRONESIAN languages, VERBS, LEXICON, LEXICOLOGY, LEXEME, NOUNS

مستخلص: The article discusses lexical and grammatical flexibility in Toqabaqita tackled during the workshop on lexical flexibility in Oceanic Languages on October 23-24, 2014. Topics include the system of Toqabaqita, modification of verbs by the relevant lexemes, and modification of nouns by relevant lexemes.

المؤلفون: Blevins, Juliette

المصدر: Diachronica; Apr2008, Vol. 25 Issue 1, p1-19, 19p

مصطلحات موضوعية: PHONETICS, SOUNDS, VOWELS, OCEANIC languages, PHONOLOGY, NEOGRAMMARIANS, LINGUISTIC change, LINGUISTICS, AUSTRONESIAN languages

مستخلص: Blust (2005, 2007a, 2007b) questions the phonetic motivation of a number of well-attested sound changes. One sound change in this class is the purported case of stressed vowel syncope in Mussau, an Oceanic language (Blust 1984, 2001, 2007a). Regular syncopes typically target unstressed vowels. By contrast, loss of stressed vowels is difficult to motivate, due to their inherent prominence. Close inspection of Mussau historical phonology suggests that, at its origins, syncope was limited to unstressed vowels, with subsequent developments obscuring its original phonetic motivation. Under the proposed analysis, the Neogrammarian insistence on phonetically motivated sound change is maintained. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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