Re: "Father" in 3B (was Re: Speaking of books... (and a spot of 3B))

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From: taliesin the storyteller <taliesin-conlang@...>

> * Paul Bennett said on 2007-01-03 15:43:36 +0100
> >
> > *p?\='te:r
> >  --> pX='te:r (voicing assim)
> /skipping lotsa rules/
> >  --> 'xvyse (initial stress)
>
> And the next stage is 'xvys > 'xvis > 'vis unless stress means
> little in 3B? Which illutrates my point: where does one stop?
Well, 3B is supposed to have shortish roots, and relatively little
fear of syllabic non-vowels, with
plenty of agglutination and compounding, and a touch of prefixing (the
main example is fusing
coordinating pronouns to the verb as prefixes, after the information
has been mostly eroded from
their ends).

I suppose some of my chains of rules are long enough that they're
applicable to the Modern stage of
the language, come to think of it. I'm going to have to start formally
collecting the sound changes
in some kind of framework, with a view to having a development that is
broad as well as deep.



Paul