On Fri, 31 Aug 2007 05:45:31 -0400, Alex Fink <a4pq1injbok_0@...> wrote:
>...>To answer your ultimate question about
>whether /i i-/ should occur I'd want to know whether the first <Prep+X> was
>ever a collapse of <Prep X> with the same semantics (literally /ikatava/ 'in
>a palm tree', say), or whether the preposition was doing something different
>from the beginning. Only in the latter case
former case. bleurgh.
>...>would the preposition be
>justified in going missing for "another"'s reasons.
Alex