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Re: Another attempt to introduce myself

From:Pavel Iosad <pavel_iosad@...>
Date:Thursday, July 11, 2002, 10:56
Hello,

> bac = voice / language. ingland = England. yes, it's a mutation, but > functional rather than situational like in gaelic . . . the series is > dn, d, dh ( /n/, /d/, /D/ - vr.d.d.hi gun.a and base grade if > you like ) > and applies to ALL consonants. if a word starts with a vowel then it > takes t as an initial consonant when it needs to mutate.
Hmmm, sounds like the African class systems (Fula, e.g.)... Though entirely phonologically conditioned, nowhere near lexicalisation/grammaticalization, right? Pavel -- Pavel Iosad pavel_iosad@mail.ru 'I am a philologist, and thus a misunderstood man' --JRR Tolkien, _The Notion Club Papers_

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