From: stlatos
Message: 70904
Date: 2013-02-08
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "dgkilday57" wrote:Also:
> > 1. 'Wolf'. Inventing archaic root-noun inflection to get an occluded labiovelar in the nom. sg. is a poor way to explain the labialization. It is better to suppose that labialization occurred in the nom. sg. following syncope of the stem-vowel, and then spread to the other cases.
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> This assumption takes the price of regularity to unacceptable heights. Optionality is better.
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