Re: Root reversal in Dravidian
| From: | Tim May <butsuri@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, May 20, 2004, 18:22 |
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Danny Wier wrote at 2004-05-19 21:19:24 (-0500)
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> My question: is this an exclusive feature of Dravidian, or can this be found
> in other languages (besides Shelta, obviously)? Maybe I should form antonyms
> in Tech by reversing the word, so that _bwarg_ 'to make war' becomes _grabw_
> 'to make peace'...
Not exactly the same phenomenon (if the phenomenon is even real in
Dravidian) but you might find this paper on root-inversion in Salishan
interesting. (It's more a matter of cognate terms being reversed
versions of each other.)
http://www.uwm.edu/~noonan/SALISH.type1.pdf
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