Re: CHAT: affricates/grammar help/intransitivity/free word order
| From: | Jörg Rhiemeier <joerg_rhiemeier@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, December 29, 2004, 21:14 |
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Hallo!
On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 14:28:09 -0500,
"Pascal A. Kramm" <pkramm@...> wrote:
> >German has the labiodental affricate [pf]
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> Yes, but only in the middle of the word or at the end. Word-initial it is "f".
In some dialects, yes; but not in standard German. Word-initial /pf/
occurs in many words, e.g. _Pferd_ `horse', _Pfau_ `peacock',
_Pfanne_ `pan' and many others, and it is surely pronounced [pf]
in these words.
ObConlang: Germanech also has /pf/, which is from the same source
as in German, namely a change /p/ > /pf/ in certain positions.
Examples of Germanech words with /pf/: _pfazer_ `father', _pferdér_
`to lose', _tzempfs_ `time'.
Proto-Pictic (another yet only sketchy conlang project of mine)
is reconstructed with the affricates /ts/, /dz/, /tr_0/, /dr/,
/tK/, /dl/.
Greetings,
Jörg.