Re: Revised Verb paradigm!
| From: | Padraic Brown <agricola@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, October 31, 2001, 1:43 |
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Am 10/30/01, Christophe Grandsire yscrifef:
> Celtic languages live very well keeping those changes without paradigm
> levelling. On the contrary, those changes are now part of the paradigm and
> considered to be the regularity. So I don't know why it should disappear.
In Kerno (and its close relatives), there is a long history of levelling
in and removal of mutations. Sometimes the mutation wins (nasalisation is
now firmly entrenched in the obl. singular); sometimes it loses (loss of
softening in the singular verb forms, spirant in the plural). Hardening
disappeared entirely centuries ago.
Padrig.
> Christophe.