Tibetan evidence for Nungish metathesis
LaPolla (1987), in a valuable etymological investigation of Nungish, identifies two clear cases (LEECH and DREAM) and two possible cases (BRAID and AXE) where Nungish has metathesized an earlier prefix + C.1 Sun (1986:14) identifies four cases of metathesis in Nungish (and other languages), DREAM, F...
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Main Author: | DeLancey, Scott |
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Other Authors: | University of Oregon |
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