Re: Phaleran voices: active, passive, antipassive, etc.

Nik Taylor wrote:

> "Thomas R. Wier" wrote:
> > > but it also uses a verbal prefix su-/sw-. E.g.
> >
> > Changed my mind.  Here's the allomorphy for the antipassive prefix:
>
> By the way, s(u)- is the antipassive prefix in Uatakassí, s- used before
> glides and /l/, su- elsewhere.
Weird! I knew that Uatakassí had an antipassive, but I had no idea what
it was.  On the other hand, both /s/ and /u/ are highly unmarked segments,
so maybe it's not so weird afterall.

> >      dmatabrolþa                                 stmatabrolþa
>
> Eek!  Initial /dm/?  Are there any epenthetic schwas or assimilation?
Nope, not in the standard. But the Önopæles dialect doesn't allow any
consonant clusters at all, even across syllable boundaries:

    Standard:  eoni gethasyonti 'he has seen them'  >
    Önöpæles:  eoni gæthasayonæti

> Phaleran seems to like its consonants.  The Kassí would butcher it.  :-)
As onsets -- Phaleran's constraints for codas are much stronger.  It allows
no final clusters of consonants, and only a handful of fricatives (s, þ, š, x),
nasals (m, n, [N]), liquids (l, r) and glides (w, y) to be codas.

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