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- Title
Voicing alternation and sigmatic causative prefixation in Tibetan.
- Authors
Jacques, Guillaume
- Abstract
The present paper discusses the hypothesis according to which a devoicing sound shift *sb- > sp-, *sd- > st-, *sg- > sk- took place in pre-Tibetan. I show that all examples supporting this putative sound shift have better explanations, and that this hypothesis creates more problems than it solves. In addition, I discuss data from modern Tibetic varieties, showing that no typological parallel for such a sound shift is attested.
- Subjects
TIBETAN language; CHINESE phonology; SUFFIXES &; prefixes (Grammar); CAUSATIVE (Linguistics); SONORANTS (Phonetics); HUMAN voice; CHINESE language; SINO-Tibetan languages
- Publication
Bulletin of the School of Oriental & African Studies, 2020, Vol 83, Issue 2, p283
- ISSN
0041-977X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S0041977X20002189