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In Mapudungun, a set of words with the following structure: Cɨm, where C is a stop, are historically related to roots where that segment is a fricative in modern Mapudungun. This paper accounts for these forms by tracing the phenomena to a historical process of fricativisation that targets stops in final position.

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This page is a summary of: The history of the [ɨm] causatives in Mapudungun, Diachronica, September 2025, John Benjamins,
DOI: 10.1075/dia.24080.ber.
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