On 2008-02-26 23:56, alexandru_mg3 wrote:
> 2. Germanic has very few attested cases of unquestionable haplology.
> More specific he accepts only OHG swibogo versus MHG swebeboge
Ah, so what we see in OE sealfodon vs. Goth. salbodedun is not
haplology? If it could happen so regularly in the plural between PGmc.
and OE, why not in the singular between PGmc. and Gothic? And _of
course_ haplology can be regular in a particular morphological
environment. E.g. in Modern English we have regular haplology in -a/ible
+ -ly --> -a/ibly (<probably, forcibly>, not +probablely, +forciblely).
Piotr