Talk for A’ingae nasality always floats (Dr. Maksymilian Dąbkowski)
Steven Chan2026-01-16T09:26:18+08:00A'ingae nasality always floats Abstract: The phonology of nasality in A'ingae (or Cofán, ISO 639-3: con) is complex and has received several treatments in the previous literature (e.g. Bennett et al., t.a.; Sanker, 2025; Sanker and AnderBois, 2024). In this talk, I focus specifically on nasality in the language's native roots, and observe a new restriction on its distribution: If present, nasality always "starts" from the left edge and extends through (a part of) the root. To account for this pattern, I propose that nasality in A'ingae is always a floating feature that associates from the left, and all segments [...]