Re: Phonotactics?
| From: | Roger Mills <romilly@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, December 9, 2003, 7:22 |
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Dirk Elzinga wrote:
> How does Kash metathesis work? Is there a morpheme boundary between the
> /r/ and the stop?
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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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