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Re: Ubykh suspicions (was brz reloaded!)

From:Paul Bennett <paul-bennett@...>
Date:Wednesday, September 28, 2005, 13:06
On Wed, 28 Sep 2005 08:47:45 -0400, Shreyas Sampat <ssampat@...>
wrote:

> That was a really confusing sentence! In other words: > > If C conditions V: > ...V + C1... > ...V1C1... > ...V + C2... > ...V2C2... > *...V1 + C... > ...V1C1... > *...V2 + C... > ...V2C2... > > and the reverse pattern of starring if V > C.
Well, that's just it. How do you tell those two patterns apart? To me, /1/ + /C/ > /iC/ is isomorphic with /i/ + /k/ > /iC/ (absent any other data), and that's the crux of the biscuit for Ubykh: only certain vowel and consonant combinations (I think it's CV rather than VC) are allowed. I lack an understanding of how it can be proven one way or the other. Paul

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