Re: Outcomings
| From: | John Cowan <cowan@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, August 17, 2000, 2:04 |
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On Sat, 12 Aug 2000, J Matthew Pearson wrote:
> A technical term for a derivative is "reflex". This term is generally applied
> to words (as in "Modern English _loaf_ is the reflex of Old English _hla:f_"),
> but I don't see why it couldn't be applied to sounds as well.
And so it is: I often see things like "/f/ is the Germanic reflex
of PIE /p/".
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John Cowan cowan@ccil.org
C'est la` pourtant que se livre le sens du dire, de ce que, s'y conjuguant
le nyania qui bruit des sexes en compagnie, il supplee a ce qu'entre eux,
de rapport nyait pas. -- Jacques Lacan, "L'Etourdit"