From: Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
Message: 11857
Date: 2001-12-17
>--- In cybalist@..., "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...> wrote:That new words are more or less not added to it.
>> --- In cybalist@..., Miguel Carrasquer Vidal <mcv@...> wrote:
>> > On Mon, 17 Dec 2001 13:16:42 -0000, "tgpedersen"
>> In English, þ- remains (except in a more or less closed
>> > category of words where it is ð-),
>The "more or less closed" (which means?)
>category of words where PIEThis is also the explanation for the Germanic perfect ptc. prefix ge-
>#t- becomes not #T- but #D- corresponds to the category of words in
>Scandinavian (non-insular North Germanic) where PIE #t- becomes not
>#t- but #d-, eg. <du> "thou", <der> "there", <den> "that one",
><det> "that", ie. particles and pronouns. To account for this
>phenomenon, Danish scholars have proposed a Verner-like mechanism,
>observing that in connected speech, and given the frequent subject-
>verb inversion, these words end up in unstressed syllables, almost as
>if belonging to the preceding stressed word; and so the "if initial"
>condition doesn't apply.