Re: Questions about Japanese historical phonology.

On Wed, 25 Aug 2004 21:41:58 -0400, Ben Poplawski
<thebassplayer@...> wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Aug 2004 12:12:16 +0300, Isaac A. Penzev <isaacp@...> wrote:
>
> >-ku > -ita
> >-gu > -ida
>
> With the velars, it's [-i:ta] and [-i:da] -- long vowels.
Hm? That's certainly not notated in the orthography; that reads e.g.
aruite and oyoide, not aruiite or oyoiide for the verbs "aruku" and
"oyogu".

> you didn't point out the -su > -shite form.
*nods* that was indeed missing. ("suru" also goes to shite/shita, and
"kuru" to kite/kita - and "iku" is irregular in this form, taking itte
rather than *iite. Not sure about "yuku". Oh, and "iu" sometimes takes
"yutte" rather than "itte", probably due to the pronunciation of "iu"
as "yuu".)

Cheers,
--
Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>