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Re: Phonotactics?

From:Roger Mills <romilly@...>
Date:Tuesday, December 9, 2003, 7:22
Dirk Elzinga wrote:


> How does Kash metathesis work? Is there a morpheme boundary between the > /r/ and the stop? >
Yes-- e.g. redup. of hambar 'crosswise' > hambakrambar 'in a disorderly heap' (it also causes fricatives to harden to stops) in compds. where the first member is truncated: lero 'day' + tayu 'this' > letrayu 'today'; many compounds with yurun 'place' have this reduced to yur-: yurun + nawus 'swim' > yundrawus 'swimming pool' Within a word-base, -Cr- can reflect either an original *-Cr- cluster (so no boundary there) or an old infix *-r-C- that I think had a frequentative sense e.g, *khakiw '????' > **kha-r-kiw (this > hacu [hatSu] 'beach' in Kash, but survives in other langs. that have different sound changes. It's still semi-productive in Kash but I haven't totally figured it out, mostly it serves to create new words meaning "somthing like [the base form]"..

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