Re: Quantity shift (was: Re: Native grammatical terms)
| From: | Paul Bennett <paul-bennett@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, November 20, 2003, 21:37 |
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On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 15:50:56 -0500, Isidora Zamora <isidora@...>
wrote:
> I'm curious about something. Is there precedent for having geminate
> vowels
> in a language without having geminate consonants as well? In this case,
> I
> am thinking about the parent language of Trehelish. I assume that there
> would be no question about having geminate vowels and no geminate
> consonants in a language such as Nidirino, which allows only open
> syllables?
How do you distinguish geminate vowels from mere long vowels?
PIE had e, e:, o, o: and no obviously geminate consonants, unless you
subscribe to some variants of the Glottalic Theory.
Paul
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