Re: Question: Verb Paradigms

Quoting Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...>:

> Tairezazh has things like _mink_ "led", _mein_ "leads", "minst" "will
> lead". These changes are, however, almost regular from a synchronical point of
> view - /ei/ usually turns into /i/ before consonant clusters, tho' there's
> some exceptions that involves /ei/s not descending form earlier /ei/ or
> /i:/, like _veint_ "commune" from earlier _vexintu_ ("x"=[x]).
That's interesting. So, does that result from a phonological rule
limiting the number of moras per word?  I mean, I could imagine a
circumstance where codas are not moraic, and you have a word like
*meink (two moras: e and i), but along comes a rule stating that
codas are moraic, which automatically makes a typologically weird
word (four moras: e, i, n, k). So it simplifies one of the vowels
to lessen the number of moras.  A word having three moras is not
unheard of:  I believe Finnish and Estonian are usually analyzed
like this.

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