Examples:
(See Comments
for key to special characters used.) |
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| Proto-Chimakuan |
Chimakum |
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| *m'as- |
sam |
'to lift, heavy' |
| *m'aq- |
qa?m- |
'beyond' |
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Conditions: |
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No information currently available. |
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Motivation: |
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Borrowing (Mielke & Hume 2000): The fact that Chimakum roots
that are reported to have undergone metathesis have corresponding roots in
Salish languages suggests that the existence of apparently metathesized forms
in the language may be the result of multiple borrowing rather than metathesis. |
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Related processes: |
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No information currently available. |
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Comments: |
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Special Symbols:
? = glottal stop
q = voiceless uvular stop
m' = glottalized bilabial nasal
Last updated: 10/26/2001
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References: |
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Mielke, Jeff & Elizabeth Hume. 2000. Consequences of Word
Recognition for Metathesis. In Hume, Elizabeth, Norval Smith and Jeroen
van de Weijer (eds.), Surface Syllable Structure and Segment Sequencing.
Leiden: HIL.
Powell, J. V. 1985. An occurrence of metathesis in Chumakuan.
In Acson, Veneeta Z., & R. Leed. eds., For Gordon H. Fairbanks. Honolulu:
University of Hawaii Press.
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