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

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "squilluncus" <grvs@...> wrote:

> --- 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".

Its loneliness.

> Is the gemination a derivative element?

Probably not.

> Isn't it just a graphotactic convenience before the verbal endings?
> Like e in XEROX-e-s.
>

Do the French xeroxer or xeroxxer?


Torsten