Abstract
Stems in Alsea exhibit pervasive alternations involving the root vowel, which may be present or absent (/cxwat/, /cxwt/ ‘fight’). Stems with a medial sonorant consonant have an additional form, in which the order of the consonant and vowel is reversed by metathesis (/tmus/, /tums/, /tms/ ‘close’). The central goal of this paper is to describe and analyze this metathesis and its relation to syllable structure in Alsea, with connections to patterns in other languages. At the same time, the analysis shows how approaching some difficult data sources from a perspective informed by theoretical typology can provide a valuable tool in resolving uncertainties in the linguistic record.
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