- Tytuł:
- The Range and Beauty of Internal Reconstruction: Probing Hausa Linguistic History
- Autorzy:
- Newman, Paul
- Powiązania:
- https://bibliotekanauki.pl/articles/969677.pdf
- Data publikacji:
- 2014-12-10
- Wydawca:
- Uniwersytet Warszawski. Wydział Orientalistyczny. Katedra Języków i Kultur Afryki
- Tematy:
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Hausa
Klingenheben’s Law
historical linguistics
internal reconstruction
diphthongs
compounds - Opis:
- Using examples from Hausa, this paper demonstrates the probative value of Internal Reconstruction (IR) as a method for unearthing linguistic history. Five developments in the history of Hausa discovered by means of IR are described. These are Klingenheben’s Law; two previously unrecognized diphthongs, *iu and *ui; the emergence of the phoneme /h/ from a phonetic feature of word onset; vowel lowering resulting in asymmetry in plural formation; and the preservation of an archaic third person singular masculine pronoun *ni in fixed compounds.
- Źródło:
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Studies in African Languages and Cultures; 2014, 48; 13-31
2545-2134
2657-4187 - Pojawia się w:
- Studies in African Languages and Cultures
- Dostawca treści:
- Biblioteka Nauki