Re: Terkunan > Trekunan?
| From: | Philip Newton <philip.newton@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, May 7, 2008, 7:05 |
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On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 2:31 PM, Tristan McLeay <conlang@...> wrote:
> On 06/05/08 21:57:59, Henrik Theiling wrote:
> ...
>
> > In other cases, stress, which is currently totally regular, might
> > trigger a problem:
> >
> > 'serve > ?se'reve 'to serve'
>
> I'm not entirely sure what the problem is here; I'm assuming it's
> because the epenthetic vowel is stressed.
That reminds me of Maltese, which does have stressed epenthetic vowels
(e.g. when an impermissible consonant cluster would be formed during
verb conjugations).
Cheers,
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Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>