%0 Journal Article
%A Hill, Eugen
%A Fries, Simon
%A Korobzow, Natalie
%A Günther, Laura
%A Bonmann, Svenja
%+ Department of Linguistic and Cultural Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Max Planck Society
%T Towards a new reconstruction of the Proto-Yeniseian sound system. Part II: Word-final consonants  : 
%G eng
%U https://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0010-1052-F
%R 10.1163/25898833-20240062
%7 2024-10-14
%D 2024
%8 14.10.2024
%* Review method: peer-reviewed
%X We present correspondence sets involving word-final consonants and including all known members of the Yeniseian language family. A systematic application of the Comparative Method to these data yields the following results: (I) three different correspondence sets and, accordingly, three different Proto-Yeniseian phonemes each must be assumed for both Southern Ket word-final -t and -l’, (II) two different correspondence sets and, accordingly, two different Proto-Yeniseian phonemes must be assumed for Southern Ket word-final -s’, (III) the data indicate that one of the two Proto-Yeniseian liquids/rhotics developed in a similar way in Kott, Arin and Pumpokol. We do not see evidence for the postulation of lateral affricates, retroflex sounds or labialised velars as assumed for Proto-Yeniseian by S. Starostin or E. J. Vajda on macro-comparative grounds. The Proto-Yeniseian phonological system that can be reconstructed using Yeniseian data alone is simpler than previously published reconstructions of the Proto-Yeniseian phoneme inventory.
%K      Yeniseian; Proto-Yeniseian; correspondence sets; Comparative Method; linguistic reconstruction 
%J International Journal of Eurasian Linguistics


%V 6
%N 2
%& 216
%P 216 - 293
%I Brill
%@ 2589-8833