Re: Rotokas (was: California Cheeseburger)

Quoting "Mark P. Line" <mark@...>:

> Thomas R. Wier said:
> > From:    "Mark P. Line" <mark@...>
> >> I don't think we have any evidence that Rotokas has ever been analyzed
> >> with so many syllables. Seeing the number '350' in a single *secondary*
> >> source is not a good data point when we can find in a primary source
> >> that
> >> Rotokas has 11 phonemes and that its syllable structure is only (C)V.
> >
> > I'm jumping in here, and don't much of anything about Rotokas, but
> > how can it have a (C)V syllable structure when the name of the
> > language itself has a coda? Is there some constraint allowing word
> > final codas but not word internal ones?
>
>
> I must have been mistaken about Rotokas being (C)V.
>
> Clearly, those who don't know much of anything about Rotokas are in the
> majority here, so I'm outvoted hands-down.
I'm quite convinced that Mr Wier was asking a honest question. He's apparently
not taken the trouble to check the archives for earlier posts in this thread
addressing his question, however.

The answer would seem to be that _Rotokas_ is not the name of Rotokas in Rotokas.

                                                              Andreas

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