Re: Feminization of plurals?

2009/2/11 Alex Fink <000024@...>

>
> But of course.  In Swahili, for instance, the ancestral Bantu classes 11
> (/lu-/, long thin things) and 14 (/bu-/, abstracts) have fallen together in
> a single /u-/ class with the regular loss of the initial /l/ and /b/.
> Further discussion of the consequences this had for the resulting class at
>  http://www2.iath.virginia.edu/swahili/sect4-4.html ,
> part of Ellen Contini-Morava's analysis of the semantic structures in the
> Swahili noun classes which, for those who haven't encountered it, is a
> great
> read for fuel for the conlanging fire.
>
>
Indeed! Interesting read! The discussion about the semantic consequences of
the merger is quite interesting.

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