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title: "Guttural syneresis in Tigrinya and Tigre — Faust 2026"
description: "The paper addresses a long-standing asymmetry in Element Theory. 56 references. All vowels are built from three elements, |I|, |U| and |A|."
authors: ["Noam Faust", "Nicola Lampitelli"]
year: 2026
venue: "Glossa: a journal of general linguistics"
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doi: "10.16995/glossa.24525"
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# Guttural syneresis in Tigrinya and Tigre

**Authors:** [Noam Faust](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/noam-faust/) and Nicola Lampitelli · **Year:** 2026 · **Venue:** [Glossa: a journal of general linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/glossa-a-journal-of-general-linguistics/) ([Glossa a journal of general linguistics 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/glossa-a-journal-of-general-linguistics/2026/)) · **Publisher:** [Ubiquity Press](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/publishers/ubiquity-press/) · **Licence:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

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## Summary
The paper addresses a long-standing asymmetry in Element Theory. All vowels are built from three elements, |I|, |U| and |A|. The first two readily surface as the glides [j, w] outside the nucleus, but |A| almost never acts as a glide. Faust and Lampitelli study the verbal and nominal morphology of Tigrinya and Tigre, a pair of Ethiosemitic languages spoken in Eritrea. They argue that the guttural consonants [ʔ, h, ʕ, ħ] contain |A| and behave like "low glides". The evidence is a process the authors call guttural syneresis: a low vowel in an open syllable disappears before a guttural, much as French /i/ is absorbed into a following [j]. Their formal account is set in Strict CV / Government Phonology. When two |A| elements meet across morpheme boundaries, they fuse to avoid an OCP violation. Economy then lets the consonant alone express the shared element, so the vowel position may be syncopated. The result partly confirms what Element Theory predicts. It also supports an economy-driven view of syneresis over a simple gliding view, and it explains why low glides are rare: few languages keep gutturals.

## Key points
- The data come from Tigrinya and Tigre. According to the authors, these are the only Ethiosemitic languages that preserve gutturals. Both have six full vowels [a, ʌ, i, u, e, o] plus a weak, epenthetic-like [ɨ].
- Gutturals have several effects in both languages:
  - they lower an expected [ʌ] to [a];
  - they cannot occupy an internal coda, so an epenthetic [ɨ] follows them (e.g. Tigre juss tɨ-ħɨtˁʌb 'wash');
  - they trigger trans-guttural harmony (TGH), which the authors treat as copy-epenthesis into an empty nucleus.
- The analysis runs as an ordered derivation: Fusion (adjacent |A|s merge), then Dissociation, then Epenthesis, then Realization (including optional TGH).
- Two opaque Tigrinya cases keep the vowel position instead of deleting it: /tɨsʌħib/ → [tɨsɨħib] ~ [tɨsiħib] ('pull.pass.prf'), and /mɨbarak/ → [mɨbɨrak] ('blessing'). The OCP effect still applies, even across a non-guttural consonant. The authors tentatively link the retained position to Buckley's (2000) morpheme-specific stem–syllable alignment.
- All attested syneresis cases involve homorganic elements from different morphemes. The authors suggest looking next at languages that lost their gutturals, such as Modern Hebrew and Gurage.

## Interesting ideas
- **One element, two realizations:** the same abstract unit surfaces as a vowel or a consonant depending only on the slot it occupies, which keeps underlying identity separate from surface form.
- **Derivation as a named sequence of steps:** each output form is traced through labelled stages (Fusion → Dissociation → Epenthesis → Realization), so every change can be located and inspected.
- **Spotting inserted material by its distribution:** [ɨ] counts as epenthetic because it appears only where leaving it out would break phonotactics.
- **Economy as the trigger:** when two similar items sit side by side, one realization is allowed to express both, and this is cast as avoiding a near-duplicate (OCP) rather than as plain deletion.
- **Contrast case as a built-in control:** French shows that |A| blocks gliding (no glide in [ʒeã] 'giant'), and this sharpens the claim that Tigrinya and Tigre gutturals are special.

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- **I1** (tokens): Store a single lemma-level unit and let position decide its surface spelling, instead of keeping parallel entries for each realization.
- **I2** (tokens): Morphological analysis could log named, ordered steps per word, which makes errors such as a wrong lemma explainable and debuggable.
- **I3** (tokens): Function material that is present only because the grammar demands it, such as do-support "do" or dummy "it", could be flagged as structural rather than contentful.
- **I4** (back): The generator could merge adjacent repeated content (shared subjects, coordinated predicates) under an explicit "express once" rule, keeping a record of what was merged.
- **I5** (learn): For every learned repair rule, also check a minimal contrast set where the rule must not fire, as a negative control.

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## Cite

Cite as: Noam Faust and Nicola Lampitelli. 2026. Guttural syneresis in Tigrinya and Tigre. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics.

The paper itself, not this page. BibTeX from the library's record of the work.

```bibtex
@article{faust2026guttural,
  title = {{Guttural syneresis in Tigrinya and Tigre}},
  author = {Noam Faust and Nicola Lampitelli},
  journal = {Glossa: a journal of general linguistics},
  year = {2026},
  doi = {10.16995/glossa.24525},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.16995/glossa.24525}
}
```

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