Miguel:
>The only place where syllabic consonants may have been present
>is precisely in the endings of the strong nominal and verbal forms, and the
>inventory we have is the following:
But why on earth? Why would a syllabic *-m only occur as a suffix?
Or is your rule rather "Syllabic *-m occurs only word-finally" but
then again, we must wonder why that would be, necessitating further
assumptions. I don't see any clear rules on syllabic shape here.
- gLeN
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