Dahl's law in Kitharaka

Abstract

This paper discusses the nature of Dahl's law in Kitharaka.It is shown that the rule has diachronically operated on Kitharaka roots and that it operates on the prefixes synchronically.Morever,it is argued that,whereas the motivation for the rule's diachronic operation is not clear,its synchronic operation is motivated by the need to conform to a condition in Kitharaka grammar whose function is t prevent the occurence of word forms that contradict the outcome of the diachronic operation of the rule. Besides Kitharaka words of native stock that undergo the synchronic operation of the rule,further evidence has been adduced from loan words to demonstrate that Dahl's law is,indeed,synchronically operational in the language.