Database
Chimakuan/Chimakum
(Western Washington (now extinct); Chimakuan)
Summary:
Proto-Chimakuan root-initial and root-final consonants underwent metathesis across an intervening vowel in Chimakum.
Summary:
Proto-Chimakuan root-initial and root-final consonants underwent metathesis across an intervening vowel in Chimakum.
Examples:
| Proto-Chimakuan | Chimakum | |
|---|---|---|
| *m'as- | sam | 'to lift, heavy' |
| *m'aq- | qa?m- | 'beyond' |
Conditions:
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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.
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 Information:
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No information currently available.
Symbols:
? = glottal stop
q = voiceless uvular stop
m' = glottalized bilabial nasal
Last Updated: 6/20/2007
? = glottal stop
q = voiceless uvular stop
m' = glottalized bilabial nasal
Last Updated: 6/20/2007
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.
