TY - JOUR AU - Ribeiro, Eduardo Rivail PY - 2012/05/27 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Final consonants in Maxakalí and their comparative status JF - LIAMES: Línguas Indígenas Americanas JA - LIAMES: Ling. Indig. Am. VL - 12 IS - 1 SE - Squibs e Discussão DO - 10.20396/liames.v0i12.1489 UR - https://periodicos.sbu.unicamp.br/ojs/index.php/liames/article/view/1489 SP - 189-193 AB - <p style="margin: 0in; margin-bottom: .0001pt; background: white;"><em>Although final-consonant correspondences between Proto-Jê and Maxakalí tend to be straightforward, in some cases the comparative data seem to suggest that Maxakalí has actually undergone a major innovation, through the accretion of final consonants to originally vowel-final roots. This hypothesis is further corroborated by the study of loanwords from both Portuguese and Old Tupí.</em></p> ER -