INVESTIGADORES
GUTIÉRREZ AnalÍa
congresos y reuniones científicas
Título:
Metathesis in Nivacle.
Autor/es:
GUTIÉRREZ, ANALÍA
Lugar:
Ottawa
Reunión:
Conferencia; XV Workshop on the Structure and Constituency in Languages of the Americas (WSCLA); 2010
Institución organizadora:
University of Ottawa
Resumen:
Vowel-consonant metathesis in Nivaclé (Matacoan, Argentinean and Paraguayan Chaco) appears to constitute a regular and productive phenomenon; it can be observed in the presence of several inflectional and derivational affixation processes such as pluralization of nouns and nominal/verbal derivation. Following an Optimality-Theoretic approach (Prince and Smolensky 1993 [2004]), I present a unified analysis for metathesis in Nivaclé. I argue that vowel-consonant metathesis in Nivaclé can be accounted for by the interaction of Linearity-IO and higher ranked syllable structure constraints. The avoidance of complex codas and the satisfaction of the Syllable Contact Law (Murray and Vennemann (1983), Vennemann (1988)) are the driving forces behind metathesis. I thus argue that metathesis in Nivaclé is motivated by phonological requirements.
