Reevaluating two schwa-initial reconstructions in Proto- and pre-Proto-Austronesian numerals
Channel: Southeast Asian Language Conferences at UH Manoa
Date: 2022-06-08

Full Title: Reevaluating two schwa-initial reconstructions in Proto- and pre-Proto-Austronesian numerals, with some help from Kra-Dai

Presenter: Alexander Smith

Proto-Austronesian reconstructions with a schwa-initial vowel are reevaluated. It is proposed that schwa-initial reconstructions arose through a process of initial h-deletion and that Proto-Austronesian descended from an ancestor with no schwa-initial vocabulary.