Re: The last enemy
| From: | David Peterson <dedalvs@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, July 26, 2007, 9:22 |
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On Jul 25, 2007, at 5:51 PM, Sanghyeon Seo wrote:
> 2007/7/26, Joseph Fatula <joefatula@...>:
>> taliesin the storyteller wrote many things, including the following:
>> > (Affixes usually don't change the placement
>> > of stress/length).
>> >
>> Maybe not, but it's not so unusual to have that happen. Consider:
>> - stable > stabilize
>> - stable > stability
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> I think English is an exception in this case.
I'd bet lots of languages have both kinds (those that affect stress and
those that don't).
Moro (Niger-Khordonfanian, Sudan)
'Da.ma.la "camel"
'Da.ma.la.Da "with the camel (instrumental of camel)"
Da.ma.la.'na.no "on the camel"
Da.ma.'la.no "in the camel"
-David