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https://doi.org/10.14943/101893

https://hdl.handle.net/2115/84911

A Reinterpretation of /l/-Alternation in Kyrgyz /rl/ Sequences

日本語

接尾辞

2022-03-20

Japan Association of Northern Language Studies

Northern Language Studies

12

21-37

As several previous studies (Hebert and Poppe 1964, Kasymova et al. 1991, Kirchner 1998, Kara 2008, Landmann 2011, and Zhu 2018) have described, the suffix-initial /l/ in Kyrgyz alternates to /d/ or /t/ when it follows certain consonants (e.g., the plural suffix /lAr/, rol-dor “rolls,” muɡalim-der “teachers,” køz-dør “eyes,” and konok-tor “guests”). However, scholars have not arrived at a consensus regarding the rules of /l/-alternation in /rl/ sequences. Furthermore, most have focused on the plural suffix /-lAr/ and not examined other /l/-initial suffixes, such as the nominal suffix /-lIk/. This study, therefore, reinterprets /l/-alternation in /rl/ sequences, including the data of suffixes other than /-lAr/. Kyrgyz has five /l/-initial suffixes: the inflectional suffix /-lAr/ and the derivational suffixes /-lAʃ/, /-lIk/, /-lUU/, and /-lA/. Four native speakers were surveyed about whether /l/ alternates when these suffixes are attached to stems ending in /r/. The results are summarized as follows: i. The /l/ of a derivational suffix alternates optionally in /rl/ sequences but that of the inflectional suffix /-lAr/ does not. ii. Although the /l/ of a derivational suffix alternates optionally in /rl/ sequences, alternation tends to not occur when /-lIk/ attaches to a verb-Ar construction.

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