CHIMAKUM
(Western Washington (now extinct); Chimakuan)		 For more information about metathesis in this language, click on the following links:
Summary:
Proto-Chimakuan root-initial and root-final consonants underwent metathesis across an intervening vowel in Chimakum.
Examples
Conditions
Motivation
Related processes
Comments
References
Examples:
(See Comments for key to special characters used.)
Proto-Chimakuan Chimakum
*m'as- sam  'to lift, heavy'
*m'aq- qa?m-  'beyond'
Conditions:
No information currently available.
Motivation:
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.
Related processes:
No information currently available.
Comments:
Special Symbols:
?   = glottal stop
q   = voiceless uvular stop
m' = glottalized bilabial nasal

Last updated: 10/26/2001
References:
  • 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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