Re: [QUESTION] Initial Geminants
| From: | Yitzchaq Penzev <isaac@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, June 4, 2002, 11:02 |
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----- Original Message -----
From: Jan van Steenbergen <ijzeren_jan@...>
Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2002 1:44 PM
> What about Polish "ssac'" (to suck) and the related "ssak" (mammal)?
> I think those are very good examples...
Heq! I know that this kinda things happen even in Ukrainian: the same word
|ssaty|, or Present tense of the verb |lyty| (to pour): |ljlju|, |ljljesh|,
|ljlje| etc. But there are definite morpheme boundaries in the
understructure, or different phonemes are realised this way: /s=s+a+t+y/,
/l'+j+u/. I need examples of _phonematic_ opposition!
But you and Wesley almost persuaded me that Initial Geminants are quite
legal!...
> Jan
Thank you for your interest,
Yitzik
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