Re: alien xeno-anthropologists (was: Abkhaz)
| From: | Philip Newton <philip.newton@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, August 5, 2004, 10:41 |
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On Wed, 4 Aug 2004 17:01:04 -0500, Mark P. Line <mark@...> wrote:
> 9. There are 37 grammatical cases in English, but there are only three
> different surface forms for them.
Ooh, lovely.
There are also lots of grammatical tenses, though for many of them the
standard orthographic representation uses multiple so-called "words".
> 6. All English syllables are either V or CV, but svarabhakti vowels are
> common and they're all realized as zero.
What's 'svarabhakti'?
Cheers,
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Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>
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