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

Henrik Theiling wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Christopher Bates writes:
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>> ...
>> www.chrisdb.me.uk/temp/grammar.pdf
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> Ah, nice reading, thanks!  Did you post this before or is it you first
> 'release'?
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It's been posted before. :)

> I especially liked the word formation by changing the classifier.
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>
Thanks. :)

> A mean question: are there recordings?  It does not seem to be too
> easy to pronounce...
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>
Not at the moment I'm afraid. I don't have a microphone or anything to
make such recordings... and I'm not convinced my own pronunciation is
perfect either. :P However, some natlangs are at least as bad (think
Bella Coola etc) so I think it's feasable... and since the transcription
is, afterall, phonemic rather than phonetic I can possibly allow some
kind of epenthesis if the clusters turn out to be too problematic. Since
/@/ is a phoneme, though, the epenthetic vowel would have to be
something else.

> **Henrik
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>

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