Re: S mobile (Was : PS Emphatics)

From: fournet.arnaud
Message: 52324
Date: 2008-02-05

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> 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 ?

Sanskrit perhaps. I know there are variants with and without s-mobile
in that language. There are Germanic variants as well, IIRC. Like *d-,
I propose that the s-mobile was a noun class prefix. It appears
frequently on verbs because of agreement with noun class.

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Tsalam? t?ob

About d and s,
an example is : *r_w "to flow"
s-rew
d-rew
rava
Are there not river-names with the root under its different forms ?
I forgot to mention this example before.

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What makes you think it was a noun-class prefix ?


Arnaud
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