Re: S mobile (Was : PS Emphatics)

If one assumes that *s-mobile was a compounding word meaning 'well', and
conveying a perfective aspect, sometimes one would want to convey this and
other times not.

Not all striving leads to success.

Patrick

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From: "fournet.arnaud" <fournet.arnaud@...>
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Sent: Monday, February 04, 2008 3:48 PM
Subject: [tied] Re: S mobile (Was : PS Emphatics)


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> What is "s mobile" ?
>
> A standard feature of orthodox PIE. Some roots appear both
> with and without initial *s, e.g., *(s)teg- 'to cover' (Gk.
> <stégo:>, Skt. <sthagati> 'to cover, conceal', Lat. <tego:>,
> OIr <tech> 'house', ON <þekja> 'to thatch', etc.).
>
> Brian
> =========
> Tsalam? t?ob
>
> How do you explain
> that the phoneme with no grammatical status
> can be there or not be there ?
>
> Which languages in the real world do that ?
>
>
> Arnaud
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