Funny W

[Alan Knutson]

Just a thought here, could it be possible that these two sets, *W and
*R, are the result of the loss of a nasal vowel between two like
resonants with the nasal feature being retained.  For example **waNw...>
*W and **raNr.. > *R 



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[mailto:owner-siouan at lists.colorado.edu] On Behalf Of Rankin, Robert L
Sent: Friday, November 03, 2006 2:21 PM
To: siouan at lists.colorado.edu; siouan at lists.colorado.edu
Subject: RE: Funny W


> I'm not as familiar as you and Bob are with the total distribution of
these sets over Siouan.  Could you suggest some actual problems that
would challenge a nasally-released stop interpretation for *W and *R?
Or which would favor an alternative interpretation?  (If I'm
understanding aright, you favor prenasal stops: *W = *mb, *R = *nd,
while Bob favors laryngeal-semivowel clusters: *W = *?w/*hw, *R =
*?r/*hr.  Correct?)

For me these could be written *mw and *nr respectively.  There are some
problems in that these would have to be intermediate clusters.  We don't
reconstruct *m, *n in Proto-Siouan.
 
Bob

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