24 juin 2020
Laurent Sagart, « The PAN coda *-X in Favorlang », Sino-Tibetan-Austronesian, ID : 10670/1.p85r86
In Sagart (2019 here) I reconstructed a new PAN consonantal ending : *X [χ]. This is one source of the Kra-Dai tone B. In the same paper I showed that at the end of Austronesian words, two previously reconstructed h-type sounds: *H1 and *H2, evolved to different tones in Kra-Dai: *H1 to tone C and *H2 to tone A. In Table 7 of that paper I further assigned my *X to two words having no Kra-Dai cognates: *qeCaX 'chaff' and *duRiX 'thorn'. The reason for claiming these words ended in *X was that...