From: Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
Message: 55400
Date: 2008-03-17
>--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...> wrote:No. In the vast majority of cases, gemination in Germanic
>>
>> At 12:34:47 PM on Monday, March 17, 2008, tgpedersen wrote:
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>> > --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott"
>> > <BMScott@> wrote:
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>> >> At 7:57:11 PM on Sunday, March 16, 2008, tgpedersen wrote:
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>> >>>>> In other words, with some words, you'll have to resort
>> >>>>> to 'expressiveness' to explain the gemination, which is
>> >>>>> no explanation at all.
>>
>> >>>> Why not? In many languages, "expressive" formnations do
>> >>>> have their own peculiar phonology and phonotactics, and
>> >>>> follow different historical developments.
>>
>> >>> What is 'expressive'? What does it express?
>>
>> >> Emotional coloring.
>>
>> > That's hardly better. Coloring by which emotion?
>>
>> Any, including 'This isn't something prosaic' and 'I want to
>> give this term special emphasis'.
>
>Aha. So geminated verbs are colored by some emotion, and non-geminated
>verbs are emotion-less?