... There's a long tradition of regarding the alveolar apical trill as THE archetypal rhotic (also in the historical sense) and all other rhotics as modern...
... Any intervocalic -tt-'s that appear in early Germanic in words that are not obviously loanwords represent either irregular expressive gemination (as in...
In Swedish and Norwegian there is some evidence of an earlier pronounciation of r in an English-like fasion. R is typically pronounced as the traditional...
... Nordwestblock, ... the ... the ... and ... that are ... gemination ... Otto < ... (similarly for ... the ... Hats" ... be ... Yes, that is the standard...
... linguist ... IE ... stem ... memal ... root ... aware ... about ... the ... If the perfect stem is a participle/verbal noun, the present stem might be too....
... [...] ... IIRC, many of these make other presents (e.g., wegh^ has thematic, men has nasal present) and other aorists as well (men has root aorist). Why...
... [JER:] ... [MCV:] ... It is crucial to this argument (but not to the opposition) that -ur can only continue a form *-r-s containing an *-s. Is that sure?...
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Thanks for your illumination on this topic. You seem to know everything about everything. What a coincidence that you are right now working on an article on...
On Tue, 01 Mar 2005 17:38:30 +0100 (CET), Jens Elmegaard ... That is from *-r. There has been a natural tendency to syncretize the 3pl. endings inherited from...
On Tue, 01 Mar 2005 12:40:28 +0000, tgpedersen ... Because the augment comes before, not after. Also, it has a completely different function. ... beri berer...
On Tue, 01 Mar 2005 16:21:31 +0000, nathrao ... A few of them make only a sk^e-present. sk^e-presents are relatively rare (that's why I could quickly go...
Final rhotacism, often mentioned as an explication of the heteroclit declension w-d-r, w-d-n- suggests to me what I think is called a "flapped r" used in...
... [JER:] ... I was making a concession, granting you that the *-e:- of IE *H2sté:r does reflect the working of an earlier nominative *-s (which has been...
... Actually, there are accents of English with trilled or tapped realisations of /r/ at least in some positions, so English as a dialectal complex isn't...
... No need, I can see what the argument is based on. But since Kluge's Law is a well-substantiated change and since there's a gaping chronological lacuna in...
On Wed, 02 Mar 2005 08:52:04 +0100, Piotr Gasiorowski ... Even the peculiar affrication of initial tr- is not unique to English. The country of Chile was...
... There are dialects of English with trilled /r/ or flapped /r/. What is special is not English, but the fact that an approximant-using dialect became the...
... Prespositions come before, postpositions come after. Therefore they are completely different? ... Please elucidate. ... augment ... because ... Do the...
... everything about everything. What a coincidence that you are right now working on an article on the pronunciation of /r/ in Old English. I would love to...
... Notorious it may be, but what shall we say of Tibetan? "... the name of Tibet's second city [is] spelled <gzhis ka rtse> in transliteration, for which the...
... OTOH, you can never be too cautious in such matters. The common opinion until recently, now demonstrated to be groundless, was that English /r/ became...
... I don't understand. What early stalemate? Anglo-Norman French had both /w/ and /v/, the former in such words as <warrant>, <wage>, <wicket> and <war>. It...
... on it ... why it ... French ... kind ... both ... <wicket> and ... borrowing of ... Which means /v/ was French to the natives, but /w/ was not necessarily...
... world, in ... is not ... cultural ... The main reason is it's so heavily creolised (because of the Nordwestblock and pre-Celtic component?) and therefore...
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