A chain shift in Indo-Aryan, with special reference to Gujarati dialects

IF 0.5 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS

Language Dynamics and Change Pub Date : 2021-12-10 DOI:10.1163/22105832-bja10016

R. Mesthrie

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Abstract

This paper explores a possible chain shift in Gujarati dialects, involving the consonants k, kh, c, ch, s, ś, h, ḥ, V̤, and ∅ (where ś denotes IPA [ʃ], ḥ voiceless [h], V̤ a murmured vowel, and ∅ “zero”). The chain shift can be discerned by comparing the colloquial forms in the regional dialects with the standard Gujarati forms and those of Central Indo-Aryan languages like Hindi. This comparison yields the following correspondences, giving the standard and Central Indo-Aryan sounds first: k, kh = c, ch; c, ch = s or ś; s = ḥ; h = V̤ or ∅. The paper demonstrates that this set of correspondences between standard Gujarati and the dialects is a large one, and that it indeed suggests a chain shift, taken up differentially in the various dialects analyzed (Kathiawadi, Surti, Charotari, and Pattani). For the chain shift, the standard is firmly in the Central Indo-Aryan camp, while the dialects analyzed align more closely with Western Indo-Aryan.

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印度-雅利安语的连锁转变，特别涉及古吉拉特方言

本文探讨了古吉拉特方言中可能的连锁移位，涉及辅音k、kh、c、ch、s、ś、h，ḥ, V̤和∅（其中ś表示IPA[\]，ḥ 无声[h]，V̤是一个喃喃自语的元音，和∅“零”）。通过将地区方言中的口语形式与标准古吉拉特语和印地语等中印度-雅利安语的口语形式进行比较，可以看出这种连锁变化。这种比较产生了以下对应关系，首先给出了标准音和中印度-雅利安音：k，kh=c，ch；c、 ch=s或ś；s=ḥ; h=V̤或∅。这篇论文证明了标准古吉拉特语和方言之间的这组对应关系是一个很大的对应关系，它确实表明了一种连锁转移，在所分析的各种方言（Kathiawadi、Surti、Charotari和Pattani）中有不同的表现。对于连锁转移，标准坚定地属于中印度-雅利安人阵营，而所分析的方言与西印度-雅芳人更为一致。

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期刊介绍： Language Dynamics and Change (LDC) is an international peer-reviewed journal that covers both new and traditional aspects of the study of language change. Work on any language or language family is welcomed, as long as it bears on topics that are also of theoretical interest. A particular focus is on new developments in the field arising from the accumulation of extensive databases of dialect variation and typological distributions, spoken corpora, parallel texts, and comparative lexicons, which allow for the application of new types of quantitative approaches to diachronic linguistics. Moreover, the journal will serve as an outlet for increasingly important interdisciplinary work on such topics as the evolution of language, archaeology and linguistics (‘archaeolinguistics’), human genetic and linguistic prehistory, and the computational modeling of language dynamics.