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<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span lang="EN-AU">Dear Sergey,<span></span></span></p>

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<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span lang="EN-AU">In Konomala (Oceanic, Papua New Guinea), many
people pronounce the locative preposition <i>lə</i>
‘in’ as [nə], e.g. <i>lə məmlə</i> ~ <i>nə məmlə</i> ‘in (the) village’. That is the
only /l/ to [n] change in Konomala I am aware of. The change could have been motivated
by the fact that <i>lə</i> ‘in’ is almost
homophonous with the medial demonstrative <i>nə</i>,
so there might have been a merger of the two morphemes for some speakers.<span></span></span></p>

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<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span lang="EN-AU">Best wishes<span></span></span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span lang="EN-AU">Christoph<span></span></span></p>





<br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, 20 Sept 2025 at 14:30, Sergey Loesov via Lingtyp <<a href="mailto:lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org">lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="RU" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Dear
colleagues,</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="RU" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span><span lang="RU" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Are you
aware of a shift <i>l</i>- > <i>n</i>- affecting the onsets of grammatical
morphemes</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">, </span><span lang="RU" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">specifically in word-initial position?</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Thank you very much!</span></p>

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</blockquote></div><div><br clear="all"></div><br><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><b>Christoph Holz</b></div><div>Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Naples L'Orientale</div><div></div><div>Adjunct Research Fellow, Jawun Research Centre, CQU</div><div><br></div><div>Website: <span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><a href="https://tianglanguage.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">https://tianglanguage.wordpress.com/</a></span></div><div><div>Orcid: <a href="https://orcid.org/0009-0005-7997-4928" target="_blank">https://orcid.org/0009-0005-7997-4928</a><br></div></div><div><br></div><div>Recent publications:</div><div><a href="https://acquire.cqu.edu.au/articles/thesis/A_comprehensive_grammar_of_Tiang/25182350?file=44461052" target="_blank">A comprehensive grammar of Tiang</a></div><div><a href="https://www.elararchive.org/dk0759" target="_blank">Documentation of Konomala</a></div></div></div></div>