Re: THEORY: Sandhi
| From: | Dirk Elzinga <dirk_elzinga@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, December 4, 2001, 0:24 |
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At 11:19 PM +0000 12/03/01, Dan Jones wrote:
>Apart form the
>one mentioned, are there any other languages which explicitly use the term
>"sandhi" to describe phonetic changes?
'Sandhi' is a standard term which is used to refer to phonological
assimilatory processes. While the word may be borrowed from Sanskrit
and the Sanskrit grammatical tradition, its use has broadened
considerably. Leonard Bloomfield uses the term in his description of
Menomini morphophonemics; Menomini is Algonquian, and thus quite far
removed from Sanskrit.
Dirk
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