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Re: Vowel-echo (was: Re: Drughu and Rokbeigalm)

From:Thomas R. Wier <trwier@...>
Date:Saturday, December 28, 2002, 8:30
Quoting Daniel Andreasson Vpc-Work <daniel.andreasson@...>:

> Steg Belsky wrote: > > > gorgû = orcs (from |gorgu+u| by vowel-echo) > > Vowel-echo? Is that some sort of reduplication? I have > a similar form of vowel-lengthening at the end of words > to mark the patient case in my new conlang. > > I also have reduplication at the beginning of words to > mark the plural. Not very original, I know... > > Examples: > > piata 'dog' > piataa 'dog:PAT' > pipiata 'dogs' > pipiataa 'dogs:PAT'
Do you have a diachronic explanation for this? It would seem like a textbook case of compensatory lengthening. (I love it when changes in prosody are the only evidence of morphological changes in a word.) ========================================================================= Thomas Wier "I find it useful to meet my subjects personally, Dept. of Linguistics because our secret police don't get it right University of Chicago half the time." -- octogenarian Sheikh Zayed of 1010 E. 59th Street Abu Dhabi, to a French reporter. Chicago, IL 60637