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- A Historical Phonology of Central Chadic
- A Historical Phonology of Central Chadic
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Glossonyms Used for Central Chadic Languages and Language Variants
- Abbreviations and Symbols
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Methodological Preliminaries
- 3 Proto-Central Chadic Diachronic Phonology and Morphophonology
- 4 Diachronic Processes in Central Chadic Language Evolution
- 5 Central Chadic Languages and the Neogrammarian Hypothesis
- 6 Full Lexical Reconstructions
- APPENDIX Alphabetical List of Glosses with Alternative Reconstructions and Prosodies
- References
- Index: Languages and Lexical Items
3 - Proto-Central Chadic Diachronic Phonology and Morphophonology
Inventories and Principles
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 26 May 2022
- A Historical Phonology of Central Chadic
- A Historical Phonology of Central Chadic
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Glossonyms Used for Central Chadic Languages and Language Variants
- Abbreviations and Symbols
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Methodological Preliminaries
- 3 Proto-Central Chadic Diachronic Phonology and Morphophonology
- 4 Diachronic Processes in Central Chadic Language Evolution
- 5 Central Chadic Languages and the Neogrammarian Hypothesis
- 6 Full Lexical Reconstructions
- APPENDIX Alphabetical List of Glosses with Alternative Reconstructions and Prosodies
- References
- Index: Languages and Lexical Items
Summary
Chapter 3 introduces the templatic approach to Proto-Central Chadic phonology by identifying an underlying root-and-pattern structure with only one vowel phoneme available: */a/. It distinguishes diachronically simple and augmented roots (the latter carrying petrified former grammatical markers) and describes the high frequency of consonant metathesis. It discusses the inventory of PCC consonants and the double origin of prosodies, i.e. labialisation prosody and palatalisation prosody, plus occurrences of combined Y- and W-prosodies in the same word. It follows up on the different diachronic sources of morphological prosodies, and it takes an extra look at the occurrence of word-final schwa in place of final */a/. The chapter concludes with observations on the integration of loan words into the specific requirements of PCC phonology.
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- A Historical Phonology of Central ChadicProsodies and Lexical Reconstruction, pp. 76 - 132Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022