Publication Date
January 1983
Journal or Book Title
Proceedings of the West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics
Abstract
In the Gurage (Ethiopian Semitic) language Chaha, erstwhile phonological processes of palatalization and labialization have been morphologized as part of the inflectional system. Specifically, under certain morphological conditions we find palatalization of a root-final velar or coronal obstruent, labialization of the rightmost labial or velar consonant in the root, or a conjunction of these two processes. The most striking aspect of this morphological system is that the labialization and palatalization apply across the board to all copies of a reduplicated root consonant.
Volume
2
Recommended Citation
McCarthy, John J., "Consonantal morphology in the Chaha verb" (1983). Proceedings of the West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics. 32.
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