Re: [tied] *-je/o- [was: IE thematic presents...]

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, glen gordon <glengordon01@...> wrote:

> > German and Russian don't do that either.
> > Nor your beloved French.
>
> I don't know whether this is true for German because
> somehow I think that that language has a lot of tricks
> up its sleeve but you're right about French, as well
> as Japanese. This paper relates to the topic of what
> is termed 'zero derivation':

What disqualifies "klaxonner".
Is the gemination a derivative element?
Isn't it just a graphotactic convenience before the verbal endings?
Like e in XEROX-e-s.

Lars