Tibetan √lan ‘reply’

Hill, Nathan W.; Zadoks, Abel

Abstract

Recognizing the parallelism between the conjugation of a verb such as √lug 'pour' (pres. ldug, past blugs, fut. blug, imp. lhugs 'pour' and a verb such as √kru 'wash' (ḥkhrud, bkrus, bkru, khrus), Li Fang-Kuei suggests deriving the present stem ldug from a reconstruction *ḥlug (1933: 149). In this sub-case of Conrady's law, the change of *ḥl to ld- may be analyzed into the following changes: *ḥl > *ḥdl > *ḥld > ld (cf. Conrady 1896: 59, Li 1933: 149, Hill 2011: 446-447, Hill 2013: 193-195). This sound change obscures the synchronic relationship between verb forms beginning with ld- and other present formations, and the resultant synchronic opacity gives rise to analogical forms (e.g. the alternate present blug). Consequently, the dictionaries present a certain level of confusion about the paradigms of lateral initial verbs.

Citation

Hill, N. W., & Zadoks, A. (2015). Tibetan √lan ‘reply’. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 25(1), 117-121. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1356186314000455

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Publication Date: Jan 1, 2015
• Deposit Date: Dec 8, 2014
• Publicly Available Date: May 12, 2017
• Print ISSN: 1356-1863
• Electronic ISSN: 1474-0591
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 25
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 117-121
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1356186314000455
• Keywords: Tibetan, laterals, verb morphology, ablaut
• Publisher URL: http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S1356186314000455
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