A Third Pillar of the Altaic Hypothesis
A Third Pillar of the Altaic Hypothesis
Author(s): Roy Andrew MillerSubject(s): Language studies, Phonetics / Phonology, Historical Linguistics
Published by: Akadémiai Kiadó
Keywords: historical phonology; Altaic reconstruction; Mongol-Turkic comparison;
Summary/Abstract: The much-mooted hypothesis, original with Ramstedt (1912) and later refined by Poppe (1960), to the effect that a number of Altaic etymological sets in which certain Mongol intervocalic velars appear to correspond directly to Turkic intervocalic labials are to be explained in historical-phonological terms by postulating the earlier existence in the original language of a suprasegmental conditioning factor, probably a movable feature of pitch, is reinvestigated in the light of the Middle Korean written records; these texts preserve overt evidence for the inheritance of this same conditioning factor in their lexically significant tonic accent notations.
Journal: Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae
- Issue Year: 56/2003
- Issue No: 2-4
- Page Range: 201-236
- Page Count: 36
- Language: English
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