Re: THEORY: morphological processes

Pablo Flores wrote:

>> 5.      truncation
>
>It's a phonetical (and predictable) feature. Draseléq can't
>have syllable-final /h/, so the consonant is dropped and the
>previous vowel is lengthened, resulting in pairs like
>
>        kò    'village' (< *koh)
>        kohür 'in the village'
I forgot, when I replied to Dirk's post, that Tokana has
this feature too - except that syllable-final /h/ deletes
only at the ends of words; it's retained word internally.
Also, there's no compensatory lengthening, except in
monosyllables.

        suh     ['su:]    "rain"
        suhe    ['suhE]   "in the rain"

        napeh   [na'pE]   "daughter"
        napehne [na'pEhnE]        "for the daughter"

Matt.