Re: THEORY: Sandhi

On Mon, 3 Dec 2001 23:19:46 +0000, Dan Jones <dan@...>
wrote:

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> FWIW, I suppose liason, celtic-style
>mutations, elesions etc. could be considered forms of sandhi- it's just
>that sandhi seems to be confined to used in Sanskrit AFAIK. Apart form the
>one mentioned, are there any other languages which explicitly use the term
>"sandhi" to describe phonetic changes?
I don't know of such *languages*, but there are a lot of linguists - and,
accordingly, *language descriptions* - using that term.

Some generativists tend to apply it to all (sets of) rules for recoding the
'underlying' forms into the 'surface' ones.

For example, I saw a generativist description of Hebrew that called
"sandhi" all rules for vowel reduction/lengthening (and a lot of other
things).

Didn't seem too crazy to me.


Basilius
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