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Re: Two part verbs (Why They Shouldn't Make Me Wait)

From:Alex Fink <a4pq1injbok_0@...>
Date:Sunday, December 10, 2006, 8:13
>Not necessarily; Chukchi can be analysed to have both epenthetic and >underlyingly present [@]. So for instance there are nouns /mem@l/ [mem@l] >'seal' and /miml/ [mim@l] 'water'. They can be told apart because they >select different allomorphs of the plural: /mem@lte/ [mem@lte] gets the >allomorph /-ti/ that follows VC[CORONAL], while /mimlt/ [miml@t] gets the >elsewhere variant /-t/.
Whoops, /l/ [l] should be /K/ [K] throughout, not that it really matters. Alex