R A Brown skrev:
>> Samprasarana' is alternation between glide and syllabic
>> forms of a vocoid.
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>
> Not Greek this time - I assume it's Sanskrit. Yet another term not
> listed by Crystal in his 'dictionary'. But in any case this does not
> apply to the feature Charlie's Senjecan.
Indeed it is Sanskrit [s@~pr@sA:r@n`@]. Properly it refers to when
a zero-grade like _sup_ may have a full grade like _svap_ rather
than _saup_. The Indic grammarians landed themselves in some
difficulties by taking the zero-grade rather than the full grade
as basic, so they had to "tag" zero-grade roots that didn't form
their full grade in the expected way.
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/BP 8^)>
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