Southern Subanen Aspiration
Southern Subanen Aspiration
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南苏巴宁愿望
作者：
J. W. Lobel;W. C. Hall
在菲律宾棉兰老岛上使用的南苏巴能语是唯一已知的具有对比愿望的菲律宾语言，这在南岛语族中是罕见的。虽然送气辅音在世界上的语言中很常见，但南苏巴嫩语为我们提供了一个不寻常的关于送气辅音如何发展的一瞥。它们在南苏巴嫩的独特历史渊源是这样的，在某些环境中，愿望标志着动词前缀的语义对比，甚至作为名词化的标志。本文将分析这一愿望的历史渊源及其在现代语言中的实现。
Southern Subanen, spoken on the Philippine island of Mindanao, is the only Philippine language known to have contrastive aspiration, which is a rarity in the Austronesian family. While aspirated consonants are common in the world’s languages, Southern Subanen provides us with an uncommon glimpse at how aspirated consonants can develop. Their unique historical derivation in Southern Subanen is such that, in certain environments, aspiration marks semantic contrasts in verbal prefixes and even functions as a marker of nominalization. In this paper, we will analyze the historical sources of this aspiration and its realization in the modern language.