Reconsidering the Diachrony of Tone in Rma
Prior work has suggested that proto-Rma was a non-tonal language and that tonal varieties underwent tonogenesis (Liú 1998, Evans 2001a-b). This paper re-examines the different arguments for the tonogenesis hypothesis and puts forward subgroup-internal and subgroup-external evidence for an alternati...
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| Language: | English |
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University of Hawaii Press
2020-01-01
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| Series: | Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society |
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10524/52460 |