Abstract:Ramirez & França’s (2019) claim that a change *a > o took place multiple times and without any discernible conditioning factor - which the authors present as an explicit counterproposal to a series of claims made in Carvalho & Rose (2018) - is methodologically and empirically flawed. We show here that the supposed evidence from loanwords is artifactual, that the comparison between 18th Guaná and modern Terena rests on an arbitrarily selective and, ultimately, misleading treatment of the relevant sou… Show more
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