Relativisation in Wobzi Khroskyabs and the integration of genitivisation

Cah. Linguist. Asie Orient.

2023

Gyalrongic languages exhibit a series of non-trivial nasal-plosive (or approximant) correspondences, which so far lack an explanation. Some nasal consonants, mainly found in West Gyalrongic languages, correspond to plosives or approximants in their East Gyalrongic cognates. Long considered irregular, these correspondences have never been studied with the comparative method. This paper tackles these seeming correspondences and makes the first attempt to reconstruct them. I propose a series of voiceless nasals to account for their modern reflexes with various articulation manners, and analyse the plausibility of this reconstruction. I discuss the forms in question vis-à-vis their cognates in other Sino-Tibetan languages that exhibit a nasal. I also compare alternative solutions with the voiceless nasal hypothesis.

Section: 3mentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Nasal-plosive Correspondences Across Gyalrongic Languagesmentioning

confidence: 99%

On plosive-nasal correspondences and alternations in Gyalrongic and their possible solutions

Cah. Linguist. Asie Orient.

2023

“…East Gyalrongic has four main languages, Situ, Japhug, Tshobdun, and Zbu. See Within Sino-Tibetan, the Gyalrongic branch is among those that exhibit the most complex linguistic features, both phonologically and morphologically (Gong 2018, Jacques 2004, Lai 2017, Lin & Luoerwu 2003, Sun 2000a,b, and Zhang 2020.…”

Section: West Gyalrongic Languagesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The main Khroskyabs variety used in this paper is the Siyuewu dialect, with data collected from the author's first-hand field notes. Other varieties, such as Wobzi (Lai 2017), Guanyinqiao (Huang 2007) and Njorogs (Yin 2007) are also cited when relevant.³ On the ³The default variety referred to as 'Khroskyabs' here is the Siyuewu dialect. Other varieties are specifically indicated as Wobzi Khroskyabs, Guanyinqiao Khroskyabs, Njorogs Khroskyabs, and so on.…”

Section: West Gyalrongic Languagesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Lenition alternation in West Gyalrongic and its implications for Southeast Asian panchronic phonology

2023

DIA

Based on internal reconstruction, this paper resolves a long-standing problem observed in Khroskyabs, a West Gyalrongic language (Sino-Tibetan), that seems to sporadically have lenited voiceless stops, resulting in irregular correspondences with East Gyalrongic. Two major sound changes are involved: intervocalic lenition and post-stress intersyllabic compression. It turns out that the processes proposed here are one probable solution to monosyllabicization in languages of Southeast Asia, explaining a pathway from polysyllables or sesquisyllables toward monosyllables. Through examining potential problems of previous reconstructions in various languages, this paper shows that the Khroskyabs case provides a plausible direction in the solution of relevant unresolved problems from a panchronic perspective.

“…West-Rgyalrongic languages systematically lost the participial prefixes in kV- for the relativization of S, A, and P, and replaced them with nominalizing enclitics (Lai 2018); compare Examples (24) (Japhug) and (25) (Wobzi Khroskyabs). The only trace found in Khroskyabs is in the noun ɣrêɣ (Siyuewu)/ jræ̂i (Wobzi) ‘superfluous thing’, related to réd (Siyuewu)/ ré (Wobzi) ‘to be left’.…”

Section: Reconstruction Of the Proto-khroskyabs Inverse Systemmentioning

confidence: 99%

The historical development of inverse marking in Khroskyabs: evidence from two modern varieties – Siyuewu and Wobzi

Bull. Sch. Orient. Afr. stud.

2020

Self Cite

This paper describes the inverse marking systems of two closely related Khroskyabs varieties, Siyuewu and Wobzi, and hypothesizes the historical development of the Khroskyabs inverse marking system. I propose that a hypothetical prefix, *Cə-, which is probably related to the second person markers attested in many Trans-Himalayan languages, existed in Proto-Khroskyabs, and that it has different reflexes in the two modern Khroskyabs varieties.