On Mon, 16 Oct 2000 17:39:24 CDT, Anthony M. Miles
<theophilus88@...> wrote:
>Please tell me if I'm breaking some basic tendency here.
<...>
I am not sure about the 'levellings'; it would be nice to have some
additional explanation (mixing the moods or something).
>I wanted to continue the dual in some form, but it tends to vanish. It
>seemed to me that the dual could change into an exclusive because dual =
>two > _only_ two > _only_ undetermined number > exclusive. Does this
>development make sense?
I kinda recall the opposite development (I forget where): 'we two'
> 'both of us' > 'both you and me' > 'we, including you'.
>Also, the stress patterns for verbs changed as follows
>(P/A=penultimate/antipenultimate):
>long-vowel: PPPAAAAAA -> PPPPPPPPP
>short-vowel: AAAAAAAAA -> AAAAAAPPP
I'm afraid I don't understand this notation. Do you list the forms in
the order you use for the person/number paradigms?
<...>
>Oh, and one final question.What does bh stand for if voiced consonants
can't
>be aspirated? Clearly this is crucial issue for native Lahabic speakers.
I am not sure I know enough about the phonological inventory. You could
allow for a cluster like [b]+[h], or distinguish up to three voiced
labial fricatives: [w] vs. [B] (beta) vs. [v].
Basilius