Re: Laryngeal theory as an unnatural

From: tolgs001
Message: 25115
Date: 2003-08-16

>>PS: While mama has such diminutival variants as mãmica,
>>mamitzu', out of mumã one cannot make similar diminutivals.
>>(By "one" I understand a native-speaker of course.)
>
>What do you intend to say with this?

Namely that a native speaker will never create diminutival
variants, based on mumã, such as *mumicã, *mumitz.

>alex

George