Tonal Causative Alternation in Jingpo and its Alternative Hypothesis
This paper deals with a tonal causative alternation in Jingpo.It first shows that this al-ternation cannot be accounted for by the transphonologization of a sigmatic causative prefix,unlike the well-known tonal causative alternation found in Tibetic languages.Then,it presents an alternative hypothesis based on comparative data from Kiranti,according to which this tonal alternation is a trace of the applicative-t suffix in some particular phonological contexts.
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