Morphological effects on Pali gemination: A preliminary study

Benjamin Schmeiser

doi:10.3989/loquens.2022.e095

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Benjamin Schmeiser Illinois State University https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4118-2923

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3989/loquens.2022.e095

Palabras clave:

Pali, la geminación, la asimilación progresiva y regresiva, los grupos consonánticos

Resumen

En el cambio del siglo XX (Childers, 1879; Müller, 1884; Whitney, 1889; Gray, 1899; Duroiselle, 1906), los neogramáticos empezaron a estudiar el idioma pali, incluyendo su gramática. Un área de mucho interés durante esa época fue el proceso fonológico de la asimilación. El pali tiene asimilación progresiva, así como regresiva, y por lo general se forma una geminada consonántica (Krishnaswamy, et al., 2019). Algunos estudios más recientes (Junghare, 1979; Suzuki, 2002a,b; Gupta, 2003; Schmeiser, 2008; Dutta, 2017) han tratado de explicar la geminación consonántica en bases léxicas en términos sólo fonológicos. Junghare (1979) se concentra en la escala de sonoridad de Jespersen (1909), haciendo notar que cuando la primera consonante tiene un valor igual o más alto que la segunda consonante, ocurre la asimilación regresiva. Suzuki (2002a,b) prefiere ver el fenómeno en términos de fuerza consonántica, lo cual depende del grado de constricción oral. En estos estudios, el grupo consonántico nasal + consonante se ve como excepción; Schmeiser (2008) ofrece una explicación articulatoria que tiene en cuenta esta excepción.

Aunque estos estudios nos han ayudado a entender mejor cómo funciona la geminación consonántica en bases léxicas en Pali, muy pocos estudios han considerado los efectos morfológicos de la geminación en Pali. El estudio actual, aunque sea exploratorio, sugiere que existe un problema cuando hay un análisis fonológico de las geminadas; el problema es que las geminadas producen diferentes resultados basados en factores morfológicos. En resumen, el estudio analiza los efectos de afijos en la geminación en pali y sugiere que la explicación basada únicamente en la estructura silábica o sonoridad no es suficiente y declara que hay que investigar en más detalle este fenómeno.

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