Deglottalizing contamination in A'ingae historical derivatives
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https://doi.org/10.3765/plsa.v10i1.5879Keywords:
A'i, Cofán, Kofane, Ecuador, Amazon, isolate, documentation, glottal stop, creak, glottalization, deglottalization, stress, pitch, F0, intensity, duration, semantic shift, contamination, innovation, retention, leveling, analogy, hypocorrection, nominalization, derivation, reduction, exceptionality, reanalysis, lexicalization, diachrony, lexical redundancy, lexicon, productive, nonceAbstract
I describe and analyze the phonological form and historical trajectory of nominal derivatives in A’ingae (ISO 639-3: con), an underdocumented Amazonian isolate. Some words historically derived with otherwise preglottalized nominalizers have no glottalization today. I propose that these “exceptions” are reflexes of originally glottalized words, which underwent semantic shift and lost glottalization due to contamination from the plain (i.e. non-glottalized) majority. The paper thus documents a rare case where non-productive morphological patterns are the innovation, not retention.
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