On the origin of ablaut in the cariban family

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4559604
AutoresSérgio Meira (Leiden University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2010
Volumen76
Número4
Páginas477-515
Fecha de publicación2010-10-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaInternational Journal of American Linguistics (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0020-7071 • E-ISSN: 1545-7001
EditorialUniversity of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1086/658055
OpenAlexW1986601504
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas17
Referencias citadas17

In this paper, we undertake the first systematic exploration of pan-Cariban ablaut, a pattern of stem-initial vowel alternation in the paradigm of possessed nouns, inflected verbs, and inflected postpositions. We identify several related, but distinct, ablaut patterns and reconstruct them to sources in two Proto-Carib morphemes, *i- ‘3’ and *j- ‘Relational Prefix’. This then leads us to ervise prior reconstructions of certain personmarking prefixes in Proto-Carib, as well as many vowel-initial lexical items, a few *j- initial lexical items, and two Proto-Carib derivational morphemes. A number of these reconstructions appear to support prior claims of distant genetic relationship between the Cariban and Tupian families

Alternation (linguistics · Animacy · Lexical item · Linguistics · Morpheme · Noun · Part of speech · Prefix · Vowel · History · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Philosophy · Phonetics and Phonology Research · Spanish Linguistics and Language Studies