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

From:Paul Bennett <paul-bennett@...>
Date:Wednesday, January 3, 2007, 18:36
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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