Re: THEORY: Evolution of infixes/ablaut?
| From: | Lars Henrik Mathiesen <thorinn@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, March 17, 2000, 20:30 |
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> Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 14:24:28 -0500
> From: Padraic Brown <pbrown@...>
> Don't know Swedish. Old Norse has thykkja-thotti; can't find bring.
> In Norse, -nk- -> -kk-. This might be an interesting feature for the
> IE conlangers amongst us to look into. The infix, that is. :)
Danish has bringe/bringer/bragte/bragt (inf/pres/pret/pptc) --- but
that's the only one I can think of now, except for dubious and archaic
forms. Lots of levelling has been going on since the time of Common
Scandinavian, of course, and more so since Common Germanic.
Lars Mathiesen (U of Copenhagen CS Dep) <thorinn@...> (Humour NOT marked)