Re: full (was: swallow vs. nightingale)

From: Patrick Ryan
Message: 50852
Date: 2007-12-10

 
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Subject: Re: [tied] Re: full (was: swallow vs. nightingale)

 
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A.F
I know this article.
the source I previously gave is a more developped and achieved stage of the same core idea.

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Ryan wrote :
Moscati, on whom I have been relying, makes no mention of the processes described above.

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A.F :
Moscati, 1964, An introduction to the comparative grammar of semitic languages,
Harrassowitz, p74 :
"In the examination of bi-consonantal roots"
Moscati says the same, and most often goes even beyond to an extent
that is hardly acceptable.
Arnaud
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Arnaud:
 
I have reviewed page 74 of Moscati, and I think he goes nowhere near as far as Militarev. What I retained from my first reading many years ago, is that biconsonantal roots, C1-C2 could be expanded by almost any consonant in the third position. I see only one example of a consonant in first position: šbr from br/pr; and the discrepancy did not register with me.
 
My mistake, undoubtedly.
 
Patrick
 
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