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Geminate Consonants in Lycian: A Twofold Interpretation

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This paper proposes a new distribution of the Lycian consonants, which is less uniform than described hitherto. Indeed, whereas the word-initial and intervocalic positions allow either the simplex or the geminate consonant, only the simplex is attested for every consonant after a nasal and before a sonorant, and the geminate generally appears for most consonants after an obstruent and a liquid. In order to interpret the status of the consonantal length in Lycian, the sources of the geminates are explored. It emerges that word-initial and intervocalic geminates come from vowel syncope, assimilation, lengthening under stress, or reinterpretation of heteromorphemic sequences, while after an obstruent or a liquid they are synchronically automatic, indicating that the consonant was perceived as longer than between vowels. It is argued that the post-consonantal geminates are linked to the syllabification and reflect post-coda consonants.
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hal-04022328 , version 1 (04-04-2024)

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Florian Réveilhac. Geminate Consonants in Lycian: A Twofold Interpretation. Annick Payne; Šarka Velhartická; Jorit Wintjes. Beyond All Boundaries: Anatolia in the First Millennium B.C., Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis, pp.551-575, 2021, 978-90-429-4884-6. ⟨hal-04022328⟩
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