1. May 2020 FP One Comment rarissimum 108 Posted in Raritätenkabinett rarissimum 108: consonant ablaut (aka “permutation” or “polarity”): phonological alternation of stem-initial consonants conditioned by suffix Where found Fulani and some other Atlantic languages, but not all (Niger-Congo) Domain phonology Subdomain alternations: conditioning Keywords consonant alternation, suffix Type rarissimum Universals violated not yet in UA? locality constraint Source Gregersen, E. A. (1977). Language in Africa: An Introductory Survey. New York: Gordon & Breach, p. 86 (better source needed) Previous Post nonesuch 13 Next Post nonesuch 1 FP View more posts domain: lexicon, phonologykeywords: affix order, word ordersubdomain: pronouns, articlestype: rarum (or infrequentale?) One Comment FP The explanation for this pattern is likely to be diachronic: presumably, the conditioning suffixes used to come before noun stems, and their final consonants were conditioning phonological alternations of initial consonants of noun stems. 1. May 2020 Comments are closed.
FP The explanation for this pattern is likely to be diachronic: presumably, the conditioning suffixes used to come before noun stems, and their final consonants were conditioning phonological alternations of initial consonants of noun stems. 1. May 2020
The explanation for this pattern is likely to be diachronic: presumably, the conditioning suffixes used to come before noun stems, and their final consonants were conditioning phonological alternations of initial consonants of noun stems.