Database
Tagalog
(Philippines; Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian)
Summary:
When two consonants are adjacent as the result of vowel elision following suffixation of -an, -in, metathesize occurs in some cases.
Summary:
When two consonants are adjacent as the result of vowel elision following suffixation of -an, -in, metathesize occurs in some cases.
Examples:
a. Schachter and Otanes (1972)
b. Blake (1925)
cf. No metathesis:
a. Schachter and Otanes (1972)
átip
‘thatch’
aptín, aptán (also used: atipin/an)
silíd
‘put in’
sidlán
taním
‘sow’
tamnán
b. Blake (1925)
bílin
‘commend, commit’
binlán
habílin
‘deposit’
habinlán
cf. No metathesis:
kalabit
‘tap with fingertip’
kalbitin
tamit
‘obtain’
tamtan, tamtin
bukas
‘open’
buksan
Conditions:
Elision of vowel following suffixation of -an, -in inflectional suffix (forming transitive or intransitive verbs).
Elision of vowel following suffixation of -an, -in inflectional suffix (forming transitive or intransitive verbs).
Motivation:
No information currently available.
No information currently available.
Related Information:
/d/ is generally changed into [r] intervocalically (Blake 1925).
/d/ is generally changed into [r] intervocalically (Blake 1925).
dami
‘much’
caramihan
*cadamihan
‘majority’
Symbols:
No information currently available.
Last Updated: 6/19/2007
No information currently available.
Last Updated: 6/19/2007
References:
- Blake, Frank. 1925. A Grammar of the Tagalog Language. New Haven, CT: American Oriental Society.
- Schachter, Paul and Fe Otanes. 1972. Tagalog Reference Grammar. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press. John Wolff, p.c.