The Diachronic Consequences of the RTR Analysis of Tungusic Vowel Harmony
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There is by now a well-established consensus that vowel harmony in Tungusic is based on a feature referencing tongue root (TR) position (Li 1996, Zhang 1996). The backdrop for this consensus is the increasingly accepted view that TR harmony is characteristic of the language families commonly grouped together as Altaic: Ko (to appear) for Mongolic; Kim (1993) and Ko (2010) for Korean; and Vaux (2009) for Altaic broadly. In spite of this consensus, the consequences of a TR analysis have yet to be drawn for historical reconstruction of the vowel systems in this group. Thus Tsintsius’ (1949) and Benzing’s (1955) reconstructions of the inventory of proto-Tungusic posit 4 pairs of vowels distinguished by the feature [back]:
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تاریخ انتشار 2012