Gascon
- Language Family
- Indo-European
- Subgroup
- Romance, Occitan
- Area
- —
Summary
The Latin CV(C)Cr/l sequence is realized as Cr/lV(C)C in Gascon.
Type(s) of metathesis
| Type | Status | Optionality | Position | Location | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| a. CC/CV | Diachronic | Obligatory | Adjacent | Root-internal |
Case types and qualities
-
- CC/CV
-
- C1:
- Any
- C2:
- Rhotic
- C2:
- Alveolar lateral
Examples
| Latin | Gascon | Gloss |
|---|---|---|
| cápra | crába | 'goat' |
| (ex)combráre | escrumbá | 'to sweep' |
| cástra | cráste | 'ditch' |
Conditions
No conditions could be found
Motivations
Syllable Weight (Dumenil 1987): In a consonant cluster starting a non-initial syllable, a liquid shifts across syllable boundaries to the preceding syllable if that syllable is heavier than the syllable to which the liquid originally belonged. (In calculating syllable weight, input and environment weights are considered based on Bailey (1973)'s implicational feature coefficient.)
$ C V (C) $ C L V --> 1 2 7 3 4 5 6 8
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Condition: 1 2 3 4 > 5 6 7 8
Symbols
V́ = vowel with acute accent
Comments
Bibliography
- Bailey, Charles-James. 1973. Variation and Linguistic Theory. Washington, D.C.: Center for Applied Linguistics.
- Dumenil, Annie. 1983. A rule-account of metathesis in Gascon. PhD. dissertation. Uniersity of South Carolina.
- Dumenil, Annie. 1987. A rule-account of metathesis in Gascon. Lingvisticoe Investigationes XI:1, 81-113.