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Title:		Chapter 5. The story of *ô in the Cariban Family
Bibliographic Citation:		Gildea, Spike, Hoff, B.J., Meira, Sérgio; 2010-05; Kaipuleohone University of Hawai'i Digital Language Archive;http://hdl.handle.net/10125/4452.
Creator:		Gildea, Spike
		Hoff, B.J.
		Meira, Sérgio
Date (W3CDTF):		2010-05
Description:		This paper argues for the reconstruction of an unrounded mid central/back vowel *ô to Proto-Cariban. Recent comparative studies of the Cariban family encounter a consistent correspondence of ə : o : ɨ : e, tentatively reconstructed as *o2 (considering only pronouns; Meira 2002) and *ô (considering only seven languages; Meira & Franchetto 2005). The first empirical contribution of this paper is to expand the comparative database to twenty-one modern and two extinct Cariban languages, where the robustness of the correspondence is confirmed. In ten languages, *ô merges with another vowel, either *o or *ɨ. The second empirical contribution of this paper is to more closely analyze one apparent case of attested change from *ô > o, as seen in cognate forms from Island Carib and dialectal variation in Kari’nja (Carib of Surinam). Kari’nja words borrowed into Island Carib/Garífuna show a split between rounded and unrounded back vowels: rounded back vowels are reflexes of *o and *u, unrounded back vowels reflexes of *ô and *ɨ. Our analysis of Island Carib phonology was originally developed by Douglas Taylor in the 1960s, supplemented with unpublished Garifuna data collected by Taylor in the 1950s.
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Format:		33 pages
Identifier:		Gildea, Spike, B.J. Hoff & Sérgio Meira. 2010. The story of *ô in the Cariban Family. In Andrea L. Berez, Jean Mulder, & Daisy Rosenblum (eds.), Fieldwork and Linguistic Analysis in Indigenous Languages of the Americas, 91-123. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press.
		978-0-8248-3530-9
Identifier (URI):		http://hdl.handle.net/10125/4452
Language:		English
Language (ISO639):		eng
Publisher:		University of Hawai'i Press
Relation:		LD&C Special Publication 2
Rights:		Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives License
Subject:		Cariban
		Proto-Cariban
		reconstruction
		comparative
		phonology
Table Of Contents:		05gildeaetal.pdf
Type:		Book Chapter
Type (DCMI):		Text
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Citation:		Gildea, Spike; Hoff, B.J.; Meira, Sérgio. 2010. University of Hawai'i Press.
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