Re: Revised Verb paradigm!
| From: | Padraic Brown <agricola@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, October 30, 2001, 22:02 |
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On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, David Peterson wrote:
> <<The <ph> sounds like an <f>, if I'm not mistaken. That's called lenition
> in celtic languages.>>
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> Or spirantization, in other languages. All the same, these are
> usually auditorally or phonetically conditioned sound changes, not
> phonemic. If anything, I'd think the <ph> would become a victim of
> paradigm leveling. I'm curious to see what the answer will be.
Eventually, yes. I forget to write it more times than not, and
often forget to pronounce it when writing or reading. [Softening
of the feminine 3rd sing. has disappeared in the last century.]
I suspect that Kerno will eventually lose mutation altogether.
Padraic.
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> -David
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