Deglottalizing contamination in A'ingae historical derivatives
Maksymilian Dąbkowski
April 2025 

I describe and analyze the phonological form and historical trajectory of nominal derivatives in A'ingae (ISO 639-3: con), an underdocumented Amazonian isolate. Some words historically derived with otherwise preglottalized nominalizers have no glottalization today. I propose that these "exceptions" are reflexes of originally glottalized words, which underwent semantic shift and lost glottalization due to contamination from the plain (i.e. non-glottalized) majority. The paper thus documents a rare case where non-productive morphological patterns are the innovation, not retention.

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Reference:	lingbuzz/008826 (please use that when you cite this article)
Published in:	Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America 10(1)
keywords:	dabkowski, a'i, cofán, cofan, cofane, kofane, kofán, kofan, ecuador, colombia, amazon, amazonian, amazonian, isolate, documentation, glottal stop, creak, glottalization, deglottalization, stress, pitch, f0, duration, intensity, semantic shift, contamination, innovation, retention, leveling, analogy, hypocorrection, nominalization, derivation, reduction, exceptionality, reanalysis, lexicalization, lexical redundancy, diachrony, lexicon, productive, nonce, historical, diachronic, history, change, semantics, morphology, phonology
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