A revised reconstruction of the Proto-Tupian vowel system

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Autor(a) principal: Nikulin,Andrey
Data de Publicação: 2022
Outros Autores: Carvalho,Fernando
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi. Ciências Humanas
Texto Completo: http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1981-81222022000200211
Resumo: Abstract This contribution is concerned with the reconstruction of the vowel qualities of Proto-Tupian, the ancestral language of the Tupian language family. The study is grounded in a bottom-up application of the comparative method and seeks to offer a more balanced reconstruction that avoids an overreliance on the Tupí-Guaraní branch. It is first shown that the height opposition traditionally reconstructed for the rounded vowel series (*o vs. *u) is best interpreted as an opposition between an unrounded vowel and a rounded one (*ə vs. *o). It is also argued that multiple instances of *e in the traditional reconstruction should be rather attributed to *ə. Finally, it is shown that two vowels (symbolized as *ɨ and *ɯ) must be reconstructed in lieu of the traditional *ɨ. The resulting proposal has consequences for the subgrouping of the Tupian family.
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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv A revised reconstruction of the Proto-Tupian vowel system
title A revised reconstruction of the Proto-Tupian vowel system
spellingShingle A revised reconstruction of the Proto-Tupian vowel system
Nikulin,Andrey
Tupian languages
Comparative reconstruction
Vowels
Sound change
title_short A revised reconstruction of the Proto-Tupian vowel system
title_full A revised reconstruction of the Proto-Tupian vowel system
title_fullStr A revised reconstruction of the Proto-Tupian vowel system
title_full_unstemmed A revised reconstruction of the Proto-Tupian vowel system
title_sort A revised reconstruction of the Proto-Tupian vowel system
author Nikulin,Andrey
author_facet Nikulin,Andrey
Carvalho,Fernando
author_role author
author2 Carvalho,Fernando
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dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Nikulin,Andrey
Carvalho,Fernando
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Tupian languages
Comparative reconstruction
Vowels
Sound change
topic Tupian languages
Comparative reconstruction
Vowels
Sound change
description Abstract This contribution is concerned with the reconstruction of the vowel qualities of Proto-Tupian, the ancestral language of the Tupian language family. The study is grounded in a bottom-up application of the comparative method and seeks to offer a more balanced reconstruction that avoids an overreliance on the Tupí-Guaraní branch. It is first shown that the height opposition traditionally reconstructed for the rounded vowel series (*o vs. *u) is best interpreted as an opposition between an unrounded vowel and a rounded one (*ə vs. *o). It is also argued that multiple instances of *e in the traditional reconstruction should be rather attributed to *ə. Finally, it is shown that two vowels (symbolized as *ɨ and *ɯ) must be reconstructed in lieu of the traditional *ɨ. The resulting proposal has consequences for the subgrouping of the Tupian family.
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