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- Title
A reconstruction of Proto-Kiranti verb roots.
- Authors
Jacques, Guillaume
- Abstract
In Kiranti languages, rich alternations in verbal paradigms make internal reconstruction possible, and allow a better understanding of the vowels and codas of the proto-language than is possible for other parts of speech. This paper, using data from four representative languages (Wambule, Khaling, Bantawa, Limbu), proposes a new approach to Proto- Kiranti historical linguis- tics combining the comparative method and internal reconstruction, and taking morphological alternations and analogy into account. It presents a comprehen- sive account of the sound correspondences between the four target languages and reconstructs more than 280 proto-Kiranti verb roots.
- Subjects
KIRANTI languages; VERBS; HISTORICAL linguistics; ANALOGY (Linguistics); KHALING language; BANTAWA language
- Publication
Folia Linguistica, 2017, Vol 51, p177
- ISSN
0165-4004
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/flih-2017-0007