Re: THEORY: Sandhi

Hi,
Ysgrifennodd Lars Mathiesen
> In a sense it's most of the normal rules of word-internal phonological
> development, applied to whole spoken sentences --- but then poor
> students have to learn to apply all these rules to the dictionary
> forms of the words in order to write anything correctly.
>
> From Sanskrit, the word sandhi has been borrowed to denote similar
> phenomena in other languages. For example, the rules for combination
> of tones in Taiwanese Chinese languages are called tone sandhi.
English contractions are sometimes called 'sandhi' as well, aren't they? I
mean 'do not' vs. 'don't'.

I also believe the Celtic consonant mutatons go back to sandhi in anlaut.

Bye,
Pavel