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Analogy and other types of non-phonetic change in Bizkaian Basque

Year: 2006

Type: article

Abstract: HUALDE1 Cf.McMahon's (1994: 70) claim that "there are few, if any, cases of absolute regular analogy".It seems that Basque does present some such cases.2 In addition to their phonetic conditioning both rules are, however, morphologically conditioned.Thus, palatalization after /i/ does not apply in compounds (e.g.belarri-luze 'long-eared') and the rising of /a/ to /e/ after a high vowel takes place with some suffixes but not with others (see Hualde 1991).3 Although in relation to a different example, this criterion to determine the cause of a change is used by Mitxelena (1988Mitxelena ( [1960]]: 38): "Nolanahi ere, horrelako lege fonetikorik ezagutzen ez dugunez gero, analogia izan bide da aldaketa horren eragilea."[In any event, since we do not know any phonetic rule of that type, the trigger of that change must have been analogy].

Source: Anuario del Seminario de Filología Vasca Julio de Urquijo

DOI: 10.1387/asju.4402

Author: José Ignacio Hualde

Institution: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Language: Spanish

Topic: Basque language and culture studies

Subfield: Cultural Studies

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: diamond

OpenAlex ID: W1605112199

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Cites: 21

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