COMMENTS ON JACQUES’ “THE DIRECTIONALITY OF THE VOICING ALTERNATION IN TIBETAN”

Abstract

This response to Jacques’ paper (of this volume, JSEALS 14.1:32-38) suggests a revision of the temporal frame of the morphological processes discussed by Jacques. It agrees on the reconstructed sequence of derivation by means of a transitivising and voicing prefix that was followed by Schiefner’s law but dates both processes to stages in the history of the Trans-Himalayan family that preceded the formation of Proto-Tibetic.

Keywords

• tibetic languages
• old tibetan
• morphology
• voicing alternation
• thebo