Re: Verbs Outside of the Slavic

>From: caeruleancentaur <caeruleancentaur@...>
>
>--- In conlang@yahoogroups.com, Elliott Lash <erelion12@Y...> wrote:
>
> >the rest had been smushed together with the root in a variety of
> >morphophonemic processes.
>
> >What happens in Old Irish is that the aspectual augment <do-cum> in
> >this case, becomes squished together.
>
>I know the terms syncope, apocope, and aphaeresis, but I had never
>come across the terms smush and squish.  David Crystal doesn't
>include them in his dictionary.  Is there any differnce in these two
>terms or are they pretty much synonymous?  :-)>
The most important important linguistic term I learned in my generative
syntax class was "glom".  It is a process by which morphemes encliticize.
In diachronic linguistics, glomming is generally followed by smushing and/or
squishing.  <grin>

Athey

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