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Some Notes On The Semerap Dialect Of Kerinci And Its Historical Development, Ernanda Ernanda
Some Notes On The Semerap Dialect Of Kerinci And Its Historical Development, Ernanda Ernanda
Wacana, Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia
This article investigates the historical development of a hitherto undescribed Kerinci variety, the Semerap dialect, from a comparative Malayic perspective. The morphophonological characteristics of Kerinci languages are unusual within the Austronesian language family. This preliminary study, therefore, pays special attention to the characteristic four-way split of the historical root- final *V(C)# in Semerap lexemes: absolute, oblique, K-words, and G-words. Like other Kerinci varieties, the Semerap dialect features a type of phonological word-shape alternation, generally known as “phrasal alternation”, which also impacts on its syntax. This alternation (absolute vs. oblique) is determined by the syntactic position of the root, but also …
Vowel Fronting, Raising, And Backing In Luzon And North-Central Sulawesi, Jason William Lobel
Vowel Fronting, Raising, And Backing In Luzon And North-Central Sulawesi, Jason William Lobel
Wacana, Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia
This article presents an overview of four shifts – low vowel fronting, low vowel backing, back vowel fronting, and mid vowel raising – found in a number of languages on or near the Pacific coast of Luzon in the Philippines and in north- central Sulawesi in Indonesia. A more extensive illustration of low vowel fronting is given for Umiray Dumaget than has previously been made available, and a second, sporadic correspondence in Umiray Dumaget is shown to be only irregular and unconditioned. Interactions with Philippine-type morphology are also shown to result in synchronically productive alternations in Umiray Dumaget and several …